No spanking law?

Question

This is just another gov't intrusion! People have spanked for decades and now someone wants a law against it? Parents already have it rough now trying to raise kids today with all the negative in their faces for them to learn from. I don't see anything that helps parents reinforce good values anymore. They don't teach good manners anymore, or expect them. I try so hard to take my kids down the correct path so they grow up responsible and respectful people, but the law has already made it so difficult to discipline kids as it is that taking away a swat oon the but will really take the power away from parents. What's next no grounding? Whose idea is this anyway? They probably don't even have kids. I got spanked and I lived to tell the story. We all did. And our parents didn't have to worry about JOE GOV'T interfering with their child rearing. This is liberal California for ya. I'm glad I don't live there.

Answer 1

Studies have shown that spankings do alot of harm,and no good.Spankings have been considered abuse for quite awhile now.I firmly believe there are more appropriate ways to discipline a child than to get violent with them.

Answer 2

Spanking, by definition, is NOT 'beating." Like many people, I too was raised in a home where sometimes we were spanked as a form of punishment. I did not turn out to be an abusive adult, nor did it scar me for life. My parents did not always use spanking as their means of disciplining us, but they knew that sometimes a swat on the butt or the arm is necessary with a child who ignores verbal approaches. It is not abusive. Although many homes are abusive, a spanking or a swat ISN'T.

Answer 3

I remember when I was young I got this spanking, lol, I laugh about it today because I still don't understand it to this day, and I'm 50yrs old, lol, I had loaned my bike to a male friend and he got a flat tire, he assumed responsibility of having gotten a flat tire and proceeded to fix it. Well low and behold the foster parent comes home to see my bike in pieces I think he litterally lost it because he took me by the ankles turned me upside down and proceeded to spank me, lol, the turning upside down SO surprised me that I didn't feel the slaps on the butt. lol It was as if I was a newborn baby getting that first slap, lol, I do believe we should allow the once in a while deserved slap to wake our kids up.

Answer 4

I served on the Citizens Review Board for five years. Spanking a child under the age of 3 would be reviewed as wrong already, there is no need for this law. The problem with 3 and under is beatings and that fact of the matter is the people who do this are sick and wouldn't follow a law even if it was passed. The sad part about this is, the child is dead before anyone finds out that this was going on in the first place.

It is my belief that since you need a license to drive, you should have a license to procreate. If you teach them before the child is born, how to raise a loving child..................

Answer 5

I totally disagree with this law unless we have the right to sue the government agencies each and everyone when our children get in trouble or get hurt or killed for being in gangs or if they end up on drugs or if they steal then ok and also if when any of this happens the government will pay thier hospital legal bills and or life insurance. If they want our kids undeciplined then they need to pay for the ramifications of such a law too.

READ THE FOLLOWING:
Dear God:

Why didn't you save the school children at ?. ..

Moses Lake, Washington 2/2/96
Bethel, Alaska 2/19/97
Pearl, Mississippi 10/1/97
West Paducah, Kentucky 12/1/97
Stamp, Arkansas 12/15/97
Jonesboro, Arkansas 3/24/98
Edinboro, Pennsy lvania 4/24/98
Fayetteville, Tennessee 5/19/98
Springfield, Oregon 5/21/98
Richmond, Virginia 6/15/98

Littleton, Colorado 4/20/99
Taber, Alberta, Canada 5/28/99
Conyers, Georgia 5/20/99
Deming, New Mexico 11/19/99
Fort Gibson, Oklahoma 12/6/99
Santee, California 3/ 5/01 and
El Cajon, California 3/22/01?

Sincerely,

Concerned Student

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Reply:

Dear Concerned Student:

I am not allowed in schools.

Sincerely,

God

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How did this get started?...

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Let's see,
I think it started when Madeline Murray O'Hare complained
she didn 't want any prayer in our schools.

And we said, OK.

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Then, someone said you better not
read the Bible in school,
the Bible that says
"thou shalt not kill,
thou shalt not steal,
and love your neighbors as yourself,"

And we said, OK...

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Dr. Benjamin Spock said
we shouldn't spank our children
when they misbehaved
because their little personalities
would be warped and we might damage their self-esteem.

And we said,
an expert should know what he's talking about
so we won't spank them anymore..

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Then someone said
teachers and principals better not
discipline our children when they misbehave.
And the school administrators said
no faculty member in this school
better touch a student when they misbehave
because we don't want any bad publicity,
and we surely don't want to be sued.

And we accepted their reasoning...

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Then someone said,
let's let our daughters have abortions if they want,
and they won't even have to tell their parents.

And we said, that's a grand idea...

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Then some wise school board member said,
since boys will be boys
and they're going to do it anyway,
let's give our sons all the condoms they want,
so they can have all the fun they desire,
and we won't have to tell their parents they got them at school.

And we said, that's another great idea...

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Then some of our top elected officials said
it doesn't matter what we do in private as long as we do our jobs.

And we said,
it doesn't matter what anybody, including the President,
does in private as long as we have jobs and the economy is good....

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And someone else took that appreciation a step further
and published pictures of nude children
and then stepped further still by
making them available on the Internet.

And we said, everyone's entitled to free speech....

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And the entertainment industry said,
let's make TV shows and movies that promote
profanity, violence and illicit sex...
And let's record music that encourages
rape, drugs, murder, suicide, and satanic themes...

And we said,
it' s just entertainment
and it has no adverse effect
and nobody takes it seriously anyway,
so go right ahead.

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Now we're asking ourselves
why our children have no conscience,
why t hey don't know right from wrong,
and why it doesn't bother them to
kill strangers, classmates or even themselves. ! < FONT face=Tahoma color=#006600 size=4>

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Undoubtedly,
if we thought about it long and hard enough,
we could figure it out.
I'm sure it has a great deal to do with...

" WE REAP WHAT WE SOW,"

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Pass it on
if you think it has merit!
If not then just discard it...
but if you discard this thought process,
then don't you dare sit back and complain about
what bad shape this country is in

Answer 6

Spanking isn't the same as beating/violence, it mainly causes shock to the child and teaches them that what they have done is "wrong".

Corporal punishement should be legal for parents and schools.
It has been absent for around 16 years in our country, the result is a soaring number of ASBOS and yob culture.

If you get punished for something as a child, you don't do it again.

Other animals do it as well, a Zebra will kick a mis-behaving foal.

Answer 7

they say the chances for the bill slipping through is slim. the only time i ever use spanking is when i give my son a time out. i tell him to sit in the chair and he will tell me no and get up from it, i will whack him once on the butt and he will start crying and actually stay in time out.

i think people have a problem telling the difference between a spanking and a beating. i got beatings when i was a child and i would never put my son through that. spanking is when u use ur hands to hit the child on the butt and or hands or legs. u never hit a child in their face or throw them or use a weapon on them or dunk their face in water, now thats child abuse.

Answer 8

This is just another step to becoming a police state, no smoking in your own home, everyone home schooling suspect and many other attempts at taking away our liberty's. A child killer doesn't care what the laws are.

Answer 9

Corpral punishment is too ofen about adults expressing their anger through physical aggression, not about consequences and assisting children in learning from thier mistakes and developing better decision making skills, it is very difficult to do appropriately

Answer 10

You know my father believed in spanking, (beating) he took it too far. I can see where that should have been out lawed.

A slap on the hand is understandable, but is that considered spanking?

I can see both sides of the fence on that one, having two rotten stepchildren.