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Bill: Child Welfare Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: ƒortenohƒiv (ACN)
Status[?]: defeated
Votes: This is an ordinary bill. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: May 2635
Description[?]:
| Help children become smarter, healthier, and have a home. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning adoption.
Old value:: Regulation is used to screen out only those with a previous history of child abuse.
Current: Regulation is used to screen out only those with a previous history of child abuse.
Proposed: Adoption is not regulated.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning who can proceed with adoption; in case adoption is legal.
Old value:: Everyone may adopt children.
Current: Only heterosexual couples may adopt children.
Proposed: Only couples may adopt children.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change The age until which students, if education were to be compulsary, are required to be educated (limited between 16 and 21).
Old value:: 16
Current: 18
Proposed: 18
Article 4
Proposal[?] to change National Curriculum
Old value:: invalid choice
Current: There is a National Curriculum which all government schools are obliged to follow; non-government schools are fully exempt
Proposed: invalid choice
Article 5
Proposal[?] to change The teacher's right to discipline children.
Old value:: Discipline levels are set by local governments.
Current: Teachers are forbidden from striking children and may only use non-contact discipline (detention, expulsion etc).
Proposed: Discipline levels are set by schools.
Article 6
Proposal[?] to change The government's stance on vaccinations.
Old value:: The government mandates vaccination for all children, but parents may opt out for religious or ideological reasons.
Current: The government mandates vaccination for all children.
Proposed: The government mandates vaccination for all children.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 05:13:17, September 09, 2008 CET | From |  Terran Revolutionary League (TRL) | To | Debating the Child Welfare Act |
| Message | I lost Intrest at adoption that is uregulated. |
| Date | 16:26:59, September 09, 2008 CET | From | Chidan Party | To | Debating the Child Welfare Act |
| Message | I lost interest at the hypocrisy of article . "Help children become smarter, healthier, and have a home.", by limiting the numbers of potential parents? |
| Date | 16:27:35, September 09, 2008 CET | From | Chidan Party | To | Debating the Child Welfare Act |
| Message | article 1* |
| Date | 03:17:59, September 10, 2008 CET | From | ƒortenohƒiv (ACN) | To | Debating the Child Welfare Act |
| Message | Welfare is the topic. If the child is adopted by induviduals who have a bad past, would you want to live there? |
| Date | 03:20:04, September 10, 2008 CET | From | ƒortenohƒiv (ACN) | To | Debating the Child Welfare Act |
| Message | An unhappy child will never be at home, they will only be at a house. |
| Date | 16:25:11, September 10, 2008 CET | From | Chidan Party | To | Debating the Child Welfare Act |
| Message | Then why have you proposed we stop regulating adoption? |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 211 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 539 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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