New Zealand Adoption Act Addition is Deterrent for Coercion

By on 8-11-2011 in Adoption Reform, Coercion, New Zealand

New Zealand Adoption Act Addition is Deterrent for Coercion

“Changes to laws protecting children from abuse are set to pass in Parliament later today.

MPs are due to debate the the final reading of legislation amending the Domestic Violence Act, the Care of Children Act, and the Adoption Act.
The changes will extend the power of protection orders, including recognition of psychological abuse.
They’ll also tighten rules to prevent children being wrongfully taken out of the country.
A new criminal offence will also be created, making it illegal for a person to unduly influence another to have their child adopted.”

Child abuse law changes set to pass
[NewsTalk ZB 8/11/11 by Felix Marwick]


“The legislation makes it clear that protecting children from all forms of violence – a principle of the Care of Children Act 2004 – includes protection from psychological abuse and direct and indirect abuse.

It will avoid any opportunity for a lapse between a temporary order and a final protection order coming into effect which could have resulted in a victim having no protection, and makes it easier to obtain protection for children at risk of unlawful removal from New Zealand.

The bill also creates a new offence in the Adoption Act 1955 for improper inducement of consent to an adoption, punishable by up to seven years’ imprisonment.

Mr Power said he was working on other measures to improve the justice system for those who found themselves in it through no fault of their own.

Those measures included making offending against a child a specific aggravating factor at sentencing and rolling out 13 new services and entitlements for victims of crime, he said. ”

Child protection laws passed
[Stuff 8/11/11]

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