Leadership or dictatorship

[KEV EB XR8]

I just read this article in the paper for "parenting contracts" soon to be amended in parliament

To start, I was bought up very strict and have healthy respect for my parents,and at 14 yo i knew everything, as most of that age do, and made my parents life miserable for worry.
With no lack of belting's, the cane at school, respect for authority was never a question,it was there.

Over time the authority has been slowly taken from parents for reasons that i can see were to help children from abusive,drug related etc parents that struggled themselves more than likely.
In 1st class my eldest daughter came home from school and said (you cant smack me anymore, cause i can tell the teacher and you go to jail) I tried to explain to her the reasons for this as stated above.

To present day the (DOCS) branch of the government has had failure after failure with their hands tied in bureaucratic tape, and offering no relief to teenagers in trouble, but who took the power off parents to act on discipline in the first place (government) ?

To sum this debacle up, now they want parents to be responsible for the teenagers actions with (contracts) and (counseling) and pay for the damage/actions that seems to me that it stemmed from their role in trying to be everybody's parents with dismissing discipline in the first place.

I am not blurting out my personal life on a car forum but i have been in this situation and have been through the wringer and back, hence being able to make comment.

Is anyone else worried about our kids futures into the next century,With too more little ones "i Am".