Editing Christian Ferguson (section)

====Prevention of Child Abuse====
Drafting of Prevention of Child Abuse originally began in June 2012 when Dr. Ferguson was asked by the [[Mousebumples]] delegation to write a replacement for the Child Protection Act which they were intending to repeal. Ferguson obliged and published a replacement just minutes after Nikolas Eberhart of the Mousebumplonian delegation posted the wording of their repeal. After a brief debate on both drafts, however, it was evident that Eberhart didn't intend to propose the repeal for a number of weeks; Ferguson then shelved his draft replacement.

Ferguson resumed his drafting in September 2012 when Eberhart notified him of the upcoming submission of the repeal. Wanting to ensure that the World Assembly was not without legislation against child abuse for an unnecessary amount of days, Ferguson produced a number of drafts in rapid procession. It soon became clear that the definition of child would be problematic as there were some nations in the World Assembly who either didn't have children, or didn't recognise age as a factor in determining when one entered adulthood. Ferguson sought the help of his colleagues in determining a solution for this problem (which is longstanding in the annals of the World Assembly) and concluded that "threshold of majority" would be the most agreeable terminology to use. Although there continued to be some resistance to this, the majority of Ambassadors debating the draft agreed to this revision.

Determining what constituted abuse also caused considerable discussion, especially concerning the issue of spanking. Ferguson found himself in a problematic situation; although he abhorred the practice of spanking, the Sanctarian Government did not have an official position on it. It was also evident that a great number of nations present in the debate held the same attitude as his Government. Having preached against the forcing of personal morals on the entire World Assembly in the past, Ferguson reluctantly decided to allow each nation to determine whether or not spanking was a valid form of child abuse; to ensure children remained protected, however, Ferguson settled on criminalising "excessive" physical violence against children.

Although the majority of the final draft was all his own effort, Dr. Ferguson felt compelled to offer a co-authorship to the Mission from Douria due to the helpful recommendations it made during drafting as well as its presence during debate on the draft, both before and during the at-vote stage.

The resolution was passed on 09 October 2012 with 90% of the vote, the largest percentage of any Sanctarian resolution to date. It was given the designation of GA #222.