Children's Commissioner for England argues that parents
should be banned from smacking their children
Maggie Atkinson told The Independent it was her personal
view that the law gives pets and adults more rights to be protected from violence
than children.
Dr Atkinson said she favours a total ban on smacking, which
would see parents face criminal action for corporal punishment.
Dr Atkinson said: "Personally, having been a teacher,
and never having had an issue where I'd need to use physical punishment, I
believe we should move to ban it.
"Because in law you are forbidden from striking another
adult, and from physically chastising your pets, but somehow there is a
loophole around the fact that you can physically chastise your child."
She added: "It's a moral issue. The morals are that,
taken to its extreme, physical chastisement is actually physical abuse and I
have never understood where you can draw the line between one and the
other."
Dr Atkinson, who has two adult step-children, said that
despite her strong feelings about the issue, her office was not planning to
fight for a ban next year.
Do you agree that smacking is a form of abuse? is it the only way to correct a child? should it be banned? What other ways are available for correcting a child? Should someone tell us how to bring up our kids? Will smacking our kids turn them to dysfunctional people? Will not smacking them turn them to unruly, ill mannered kids?
Read more: http://news.sky.com/story/1187692/smacking-children-should-be-banned-says-tsar
Smacking is not a form of abuse, even The Holy Bible said "spare the rod and spoil the child".
ReplyDeleteWhat do they mean that children should not be flogged. Smacking is a small thing. Children m must be besten with iron hand to avoid them going astray. That was the way we weer brought up.
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