; "Dear Editor:

Recently your Sunday
News ran a letter to the
editor from the represen-
tatives of child abuse
committees of three Van-
couver-based organizations,
_ commenting on Bill 45, the
. new Family and Child
. Service Act...

I would like to add my
- Comments to your. editorial
page.contents in reply.

_ The new Family and Child ©

Service Act was prepared
- after exhaustive  con-

’ sulfations with both the

general public, lawyers and
specialists in the field of
child care. To suggest that
the 1,200 submissions
- responding to the Sep-
itember, 1978, White Paper
were ignored in that process
"is highly erroneous.

Bill. 45 is a responsive,
. contemporary piece of
' legislation that answers and

ntifies the needs of the

te rme | ‘respon Ibi |

child protection question.
In reply to specific
comments in the previous

letter I would note the -

following points:

© Rather than attempting ~

to specify sexual, physical or
emotional abuse, the new
act wisely chooses not to
specify abuse, but in ex-

planation of “need of
protection " states that it
includes those “abused or

neglected so that his safety
or well being is endangered”.

The legislation is therefore
broad and general enough
on this point to give latitude
for the court to decide
whether abuse has occurred.
This flexibility of definition
anticipates that abuse may
not readily fall under one of
the three categories named
by the critics but may indeed
be some combination or
nuance of the three.

e The claim is made that
the act makes no provision

Help’ prisoners
-of conscience’

Dear Editor:

People have been con-.
the treatment -

cerned at
_ meted out to the American

hostages, now freed. I would -

think that some of this
' sympathy might overflow to
many who are imprisoned,
not for any crime,

’ colour, or ethnic origin or
religion.
These people suffer far

but -
because of their beliefs,. or

worse “treatment than the

hostages received and they
don’t have the benefit of.
major power support.

May I suggest that readers
who share my feelings join
movements. like Amnesty
International, which work
on behalf of prisoners of
comscience.

Jeanette Stigger

_ West Vancouver

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But the safety of the child
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® Finally, | would note the
reiteration of critical
comment on the topic of
sexual abuse. In reply, I can
only note the already
comprehensive provisions of
Bill 45 and point to the
Zenith Helpline instituted in
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Minister of Human
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