NZ in trouble - the evidence
Hey ya-all. how you doing? good i hope. Sry for the delay in updates lately..been kinda busy with uni and other things. Will fill you in on that in a moment. First of all i want to show u guys this article i got sent from a friend - should be of interest:New Zealand In trouble - the evidence
1) New Zealand has the developed world's highest rate of births outside of marriage (44%), and the third-highest teenage birthrate (after the USA and UK). Nearly a third of all children grow up in fatherless homes.
2) Research in Christchurch revealed that 65% of youth offenders were not living with their father.
3) Since 1970 the rate of marriage has decreased 66%, while the number of divorces has tripled.
4) For youth aged 15-24 years, New Zealand has the second highest rate of suicide for males among selected OECD countries.
5) Since 1960 central government spending per head of population (in today's dollar terms) has increased by 320% on welfare.
6) New Zealand's public spending on primary and secondary education is highest-equal (with Iceland) per GDP in the OECD. It was 4.6% of the GDP in 2000.6 Despite this, the average New Zealand student scored in the bottom third of two major international tests on reading, mathematics and science.
7) Of the 1999 teaching graduates, 34% had left the profession within two years.
8) We now have 348,000 people on welfare in New Zealand (excluding superannuation). In 1970 there were 28 full-time workers for every person on a fulltime benefit (excluding superannuation). Today that number is four, and falling.
9) New Zealand is conservatively spending $5.7 billion a year as a direct consequence of family breakdown, or close to 5.5 per cent of GNP ($3000+ for every taxpayer).
The New Zealand government does not track family structure in relation to many social outcomes. However there is relevant data from the United Kingdom, United States, and Australia - countries which compare closely with New Zealand on social issues:
10) Examination of English court records between 1982 and 1988 found that children living with their mother and her cohabiting boyfriend were 33 times more likely to be abused than those living with their married, biological parents. In turn, the risk of abuse for children whose mothers were cohabiting was five-and-a-half times greater than for children with remarried parents.
11) Out of 52,000 child abuse cases reviewed for the US, 72 percent involved children in a household without one or both biological parents, even though these households comprised roughly a third of all households with children.
12) Toddlers living in Canadian step-households in 1983 were about 40 times more likely to become registered victims of intermediate physical abuse than their two-genetic-parent counterparts.
13) In Australia, the rate of sexual abuse of children in de facto couple families is more than three times the rate in natural or adoptive families. A high proportion of child killers are either step fathers or the mothers' boyfriends.
14) For every dollar spent on a child brought up in a two-parent family, the government spends $10 on a child brought up in a single parent family.
15) Fatherless children are worse off in terms of health, educational attainment, work ethics, income and lifetime wealth. They are more prone to crime, drug addiction, divorce, unemployment, illness, truancy, suicide, poverty and depression.
Uni & Stuff
As i said b4 uni has been keeping me pretty busy up until recently....on Fri (just gone) i had 2 assignments due + a test....fun, fun, fun! :p so yeah i'm glad they're all out of the way....the "test" was for History and was an essay which is kinda stupid. Now i only have this little lab thing to hand tomorrow and then.....no more coursework due!!! yay....in saying that though, time is marching on towards exams :/
Had a pretty good w/end....my family went off up north for a few days so i had the place to myself =) twas great...had a friend come to stay the w/end. Just hung out at home Fri nite and watched a dvd; Sat nite went out with a couple friends to that newish indoor mini golf place at Botany, then went to Xtreme only to find all the lanes were booked out, then we decided we would head out to Maraetai for the heck of it hehe. Was cool, not many people there. My fam came back early tho on Sat nite b/c the power was out from like North Shore all the way to Orewa/Warkworth area (lightning hit the power supply base) so yeah. And then Sun was church, and then headed to shared lunch at the Peeks, was good seein Christy again. Can finally play a little bit of guitar now heh. I figured i might as well since we had a guitar lying round not being put to use.
Well that about covers it for now...
ka kite ano
3 Comments:
Some scary stats there!
guitar is g 'double o' d good.
* wonders how carl's coming along wit da guitar :) Hope the books helping... might not be with the ribs tho.
re stats: "Fathers teach your children that they'll not forget to teach their children"
And the fathers didn't teach their children and the ways of the Lord were lost within one generation.
TV goes on about breaking the abuse chain by not doing what the father does. Reality is the father should proactively be training the children so they won't be lazy like their fathers. (can be extrapolated to various other "live Godly" examples)
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