I'm incredibly disappointed by the rhetoric that implies that parents and caregivers outside of paid employment are simply lying there doing nothing. They're actually doing some of society's most important work, and to imply otherwise does a disservice to the many people who have raised this. It's a disservice to our ancestors as well. Perhaps in a colonised, Pākehā-framework state of mind, caregivers are not part of our community, but, rather, a burden to our welfare system. I disagree. So we'll be rapt to support this bill into the first reading. 