Where Are Our Priorities?

While the inquest is going on in Auckland into the death of the Kahui twins, our news media reports that a fund of money is being offered to encourage farm employees to report instances of animal abuse.
Now I love animals, I earned my living from the management of them. What is more I cannot understand how people can call themselves farmers and abuse them.

Hang on a minute though! What about those human beings who are being abused? Little children no less.
Isn't it time that we stood back and took a hard look at society? Why are we waiting until parents, who never wanted kids in the first place, hung them on the washing line or beat them to death.
Wouldn't it cost a great deal less than endless court cases, years in jail, to fund and utilise our child child welfare officers to intervene at an earlier stage.

We have in New Zealand an outstanding child welfare group more commonly known as Plunket Society. Although now contracted to Government as a provider of early child health advisors. Initially this was a community funded organisation and to a degree it still is.
If we funded those Plunket staff to visit the homes of every new born infant,for the first few months of a child's life,we would be more aware of where to intercede.

Would that not be better for our society? Farmercorby.