Decades of family abuse has contributed to the rampant crime rate in New Zealand, with one politician comparing the lawlessness to that in South Africa.
“We’ve had the most crime, especially the most gun crime, that I can ever remember,” former federal Member of Parliament Matt King told The Epoch Times.
King said helping children living in families suffering from generational abuse was crucial to reducing crime.
“It’s been decades of the parents are the same and their parents are the same,” he said. “Especially in areas like Northland where I’m from, there are quite a high number of families—as a percentage of the population—that are basically mistreating and abusing kids.”…