childrens Referendum **poll added**

flutterflye wrote: »

It's in our constitution that a referendum needs to be held for any changes made.
That would be why they are having one.

Fuinseog wrote: »

what the deal with this new referendum? why do we actually need to spend millions of money we do not have on something the vast majority care little about? just change whatever needs to changed. no referendum required. most other countries do it that way. i mean who is going to dare to vote against it?
its these kind of things that make us need Eu supervisors to make sure we do not continue spending unwisely.

if a poll were to be taken how many of ye would actually vote in the referendum. I won't be voting. the whole thing has zero relevance to our daily lives.

Get Real wrote: »

Firstly, currently a serious crisis has to emerge before a child is put into care (years of deprivation, neglect, physical abuse, sexual abuse etc), with this new constitutional change, intervention will be able to occur earlier to protect the child.

Secondly, under the constitution, a child born outside marriage has less rights. for example, an unmarried father does not have as many legal rights over his own child. Imagine a child who is abused by their mother, and is put into state care needlessly because the father has less rights. Also, for a child of married parents, they cannot be adopted because it has to be proven that their parents will not pick them up from state care and look after them. So the child is in state care until 18 whereas under the new referendum, a child can be adopted into a loving family instead of waiting until 18 and trying to manage alone.

Thirdly, we cant just "change whatever needs to be changed". You should feel proud that you have a constitutional right to vote on every single change to our constitution. Are you saying the government should just go ahead and change it? They can't, and would you apply this logic to the referenda on abortion, divorce, joining the EU? Should the government just go ahead and change it with regard to those past/ current issues.

In short its about trying to give children the right to a good chance in life, a good family. It would stop children commiting suicide/ being abused in state care. If you don't want to vote on it don't, but obviously if you were a child in state care/ a couple wanting to adopt you'd care. I'm neither of those but of course I can understand. And with regard to questioning why we're even "bothering" to vote on our own constitution...wtf? Its our right, and changes to our constitution affect all our laws. Otherwise governments would make whatever laws they wanted, but i guess you'd be complaining if they did do as you suggested too.