Just to be clear, the payments that will stop are not normal (needed for survival) welfare payments. They are Childcare rebates and the Family Tax benefit A annual supplement. There are exemptions for strict religious reasons and genuine medical reasons.

Immunisations don’t cost anything in Australia. For people from lower socioeconomic backgrounds, there are family health centres which have vaccination clinics ... actually, everyone can access immunisations for free that way - just, if you’ve got money, you’ll usually arrange to have your own doctor / nurse do it and…

The highest rates of children who have not been vaccinated are in the wealthiest areas of Australia. So in the North and East of Sydney, for example, the current vaccination rate sits at around 80%, which is significantly lower than areas such as the Illawarra. This was also a concern of mine, because, generally, the…

Good. I usually don’t like governments taking away welfare cause XXXX but I think there is a real case for this. These parents are actively increasing risk to society as a whole but especially other children. Its essentially the purpose of government to protect the people it governs. Why give aid to those who are…

Good. Stupid doesn’t need to be subsidized,

I don’t understand that logic. It is lucky no one was killed in that situation because of the reckless of the parents. The parents should get some kind of punishment because they were incredible stupid.

I once took my nephew (he was maybe three at the time) to the zoo and he wanted “up” to pet the “doggies.”

Suddenly I feel better about my many bad parenting choices. Next time I get down on myself I can think, well at least I didn't drop him in a pit of wild animals.

Will this stop people from claiming that mothers always know best? Probably not

Clearly they did not read that i09 post.

All I can say is THANK GOD it was the cheetah pit out of all the big cats. Cheetahs are the nicest of them...I remember going to the San Diego Zoo and they walked the cheetahs on leash among the visitors.

I didn't know Jenny McCarthy went to zoos.

Oh man, I am not even going to try to play cool here. Saw a similar episode while travelling, in Barcelona. A young couple who took their 2 year old daughter and lifted her over the fence at the zoo. So the child would get a better look at the lions inside the fence. I couldn’t breath normally for a few minutes. When…

Thank goodness the boy got out relatively unscathed, no thanks to Mother of the Year...

Kid was probably better off with the cheetahs. I mean who thinks it’s a good idea to do this. Morons.

Bad parents should be put before a firing squad

I LOL’ed at the headline. I know it’s like, what actually happened and also just common sense, but good job!

Poor kid. He may have survived yesterday, but with a mother like this, he doesn’t stand a chance.