What do California residents think of spanking 0-3 year olds being illegal?

Question

We're not talking about beatings, we're talking about spanking a diapered child who runs into the street or tries to touch to stove.

Child rearing guidelines or just good old Government Invasion of personal lives? Anyone....

Answer 1

This is a law designed to prevent children from being abused. Problem with this idea is that child abuse is already illegal. You don't need another law, you just need to enforce the current law. This is a Government invasion of personal lives and sets a terrible precedent for future government invasions.

Answer 2

Total gov invasion its crazy to think constuctive disipline should be illegal heck even the bible says spare the rod spoil the child
and no one can say that the bible isnt at least a good guidline for treating others and your family while I believe the word rod isnt literal the idea is known and in my opinion correct theres nothing wrong with smacking a dipiare clad bottom if its genuinly needed
0-3 makes no difference if anything those are the more impressionable years and in the most needed of learning right from wrong Good parents know they have to swat a butt every now and then I never got beat butt I remember some warm cheecks for burning a whole in my carpet (never did it agian) goodluck and its great to see people think that the gov needs to back off !

Answer 3

Parents ought to have more of a right over their children than the government. However, the child has individual rights as a human being and citizen apart from the protection of his parents that the government is obliged to protect. There definitely is a fine line between abuse and subjective punishment methods. I sure as heck was spanked as a child, and I'd never claim it was abuse in any way. That right should still exist, but if it is violated by a parent who crosses a line, appropriate action should be taken. But, to take away the right from parents who spank their children and DON'T cross any line, is wrong. Parents have a right to take just action against their kids just like the government has a right to take just action against people who don't follow it's rules. What's next? Banning "time-outs" because they violate the child's freedom?

Answer 4

Spanking works and does not create violent monsters. Rather the other way around. Most kids that are not spanked on occasion turn out to be absolute monsters.

Unless you are actually harming your child it isn't anybody's but yours and your husbands business. The government needs to get out of our private lives. Stupid crap like that is one of the reasons I left California.

Answer 5

A good child rearing guideline-spanking is the result of failure as a parent to resolve a situation correctly. However, the government shouldn't be involved. I don't agree with laws concerning curfew either- parents need to make that decision.

Answer 6

i don't see why this has to be limited to only kids of illegal aliens, i think that there should be a spanking punishment as an adult punishment as well.

that way, the next time bush screws up, he gets spanked in front of the nation...

Answer 7

I find it interesting that there has been an increase in school violence and it coincides with a decrease in corporal punishment. I'm not saying that the two are related, but just that it is interesting.

Answer 8

It depends on your definitions of "spanking"!

I am apposed to spanking in almost all cases, especially those from 0 to 1 as they cant equate any action with a spanking. Crying too much is not a reason!

In 16 years of investigating child abuse from 16 year olds who gave birth, put their kid in a box and shoved it under the bed to die, a father who was released by a judge, who had already been convicted of battering, for threatening to kill his wife and kids. After release he took a 12 gage shotgun and pulled the trigger 1 foot away from a 6 month old, to a 4 month old at Dartmouth Hitchcock PIC unit, comatose after stopping breathing. She was resuscitated. She was on a vent as her brain was swollen from being shaken and she was comatose! She had 6 posterior fractures of her ribs, bi-lateral hemorhaging of in her pupils and she had bruise to her buttocks. All for the crime of CRYING! The perpetrator was never arrested!

Spanking teaches nothing positive, and most "spankings" I have seen are out of anger, not a punishment! Many were not spankings at all, they wer child abuse!

Each year over 1,200 children under the age of 5 die from the hands of their parents, and not one death certificate indicates the child was a victim of Child Abuse!

A friend of mine, who I worked with for over a decade, was the chairperson of the Committee who wrote this:AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS
When Inflicted Skin Injuries Constitute Child Abuse
Committee on Child Abuse and Neglect
"A definition of significant trauma is any injury beyond temporary redness of the skin. Although cellular injury may occur as a result of any trivial trauma, to be considered physical abuse, an injury must be overt enough to be recognized. Nonaccidental bruises, burns, punctures, lacerations, and abrasions are abuse, because tissue has been damaged, and the healing process occurs over time. One practical criterion often used is that any inflicted injury that lasts more than 24 hours constitutes significant injury (ie, physical abuse).12 ".....
Any standard based on levels of injury is likely to be arbitrary and argumentative. It raises different standards for children than for adults. For example, a bruise on a child that might be considered "minor" and undeserving of much child protective services response might elicit a vigorous reaction if committed to an adult in a situation of intimate partner violence. Ultimately, children are demeaned by attitudes and policies that trivialize inflicted injuries and fail to label them for what they are—physical abuse.
Steven W. Kairys, MD, MPH, Chairperson
Randell C. Alexander, MD, PhD
Robert W. Block, MD
V. Denise Everett, MD
Kent P. Hymel, MD
Carole Jenny, MD, MBA
John Stirling, Jr, MD

Child rearing is not carte blanch as the stat acts in Parens Patraie when all you nice people break the femurs of a 2 month old!

Answer 9

I personally do not believe in spanking... but it is my opinion, that nobody should be able to inflict their opinion on me, therefore, no this should not be a law...

Answer 10

It's just another government intrusion into your personal life. How do you feel about that?