Opponents blocked a previous vote on the legislation, denouncing it as a reward for the children of lawbreakers.
For instance, a 2013 study from the University of New Hampshire Family Research Laboratory found that kids who were spanked grew up to be lawbreakers at greater rates than un-spanked children, even if those un-spanked children had otherwise shitty upbringings.
It was about 10 miles south of Captain Cook, not far from Lucky Farm, that we found Puuhonua o Honaunau, a "Place of Refuge" that once functioned as the oceanside home of Hawaii's royal chiefs and as a safe haven for women, children and noncombatants during times of war, and for lawbreakers hoping to evade a death sentence.
Treating troublemakers like lawbreakers can have serious consequences for affected children, removing them from the classroom and sending them down the too-well-trodden pathway to prison.
Protecting those who exposed government lawbreaking is as necessary as holding the lawbreakers accountable.
"The undocumented are viewed in current policy debates as lawbreakers, laborers or victims — seldom as parents raising citizen children," wrote the author, Hirokazu Yoshikawa, a Harvard education professor who has published the study as a book, "Immigrants Raising Citizens" (Russell Sage Foundation, 2011).
Roman Catholic Archbishop of Los Angeles José Gomez told National Public Radio that the children should be treated as victims in need of help rather than as lawbreakers who should be hastily deported.
Others said Facebook would have to straddle a difficult balance between not turning a blind eye to lawbreakers while also allowing parents to have more fine-tuned controls over their children's social lives online.
Since some of these lawbreakers are stupid enough to use work computers and the Internet to seek out children to have sex with or view content depicting them in a way they shouldn't be, internal security at companies has never been so important.
Lawbreakers felt emboldened.
