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MP Sue Bradford says she is sorry parents have been worried about her bill to change the law on smacking, and blames that on a "campaign of misinformation" run by opponents.
"I do regret that so many decent, good parents have been made to feel guilty about this or worried about it," she said yesterday after meeting National leader John Key in a failed bid to find a common position on the bill.
"What I'm apologising to them for is that the campaign of misinformation has been such that it has made a lot of decent parents very afraid.
"They've believed the misinformation that if this bill goes through then suddenly the police will be invading their homes, arresting them and taking them to court just because they might have once lightly smacked their child."
- NZPA
