Earlier in town I saw a mother with a son of about 10 who was being difficult and in front of everybody she told him if he didn't shut up she'd spank his bum once home.
2007-01-28 04:40:03 · 7 answers · asked by p c 1 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Parenting
spankings should never be made illegal, anywhere. they work, they are good discipline, and they teach kids to do right.
2007-01-28 07:13:53 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 3⤋
Spanking is smacking mutually with your palms and is not any longer unlawful and is an effective punishment. in the experience that your Dad is hitting you with belts or rulers then this could be seen over the outstanding and to be basic slightly strange... ... no longer saying he's a pedo or something, yet he could truthfully be getting off on punishing you. in case you get a glimpse of gratification (*shall we leave it at that...) then you certainly could strengthen this your Mum or much greater effective with social centers. actuality is however that on the same time as you reside at living house, below your mom and dad' roof, then you certainly could understand their judgements. Being a 14yr female, be sure to no longer be out at a gig till 0200 without person supervision. What in case you have been assaulted or went lacking? Your mom and dad could be inconsolable with grief. No ask your self your Dad fel the could punish you.
2016-12-16 15:36:02 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No the government daren't do that yet (they are afraid of being called a Nanny state). I think you can't do it in Scotland though. I used to live in Leeds and some of the Mums at the school would immediately hit their children if they weren't obeyed and I once saw the cutest toddler get hit too (I had to bite my tongue before I got into a fight with the awful Mum who did it). Its an emotive subject, some parents don't have the skills to be able to discipline their children without hitting them - so they justify hitting and don't realise its abuse.
2007-01-31 16:09:28 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
First of all, my kids don't get spankings, but just the threat of them make them straighten up when nothing else will. I don't know about the UK's laws. I think that if government wants to tell people how to raise their children that the government should also foot the bill for raising the children. I think all governments take a bit to much liberty at making these "laws"
2007-01-28 04:46:47 · answer #4 · answered by autumnofserenity@sbcglobal.net 4 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Technically it's only illegal if you use something other than your hand and/or if you leave bruises or any kind of lasting mark.
2016-12-01 17:00:54 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I wish. Fifteen states in Europe ban corporal punishment of children both in the home and elsewhere: Sweden (1979), Finland (1983), Norway (1987), Austria (1989), Cyprus (1994), Denmark (1997), Latvia (1998), Croatia (1999), Bulgaria (2000), Germany (2000), Iceland (2003), Romania (2004), Ukraine (2004) and Hungary. This is most sure not all of Europe.
"Spanking" is hitting. Everywhere else in the law, hitting someone is considered assault. End of story. For those of you who think hitting your kids "works", I suppose you can also argue the fact that when people hit their slaves it made them work even harder. Sure. It didn't matter that you were killing the soul and spirit of all of them. At least you would be obeyed.
People who hit have a desperate need for control; so desperate, in fact, that they justify it by saying it "works". There are thousands of ways to handle a difficult child without resorting to punitive punishment. How any lawmaker can believe hitting is assault but not make that law true with children is disgusting, hypocritical, and proof that we are all dictators in our own way.
Assault is assault is assault. No two ways about it. For those of you who justify it with "ooh, but I don't beat them", or "it's only one smack" or "but they mind me now" I say, the amount of love and trust you lose each time you strike that child can never be reinstated. You know you are wrong, "my parents did it and I'm fine" is a ridiculous excuse, much like me saying "My parents were neo-Nazis and I'm fine, see, I'm even practicing the same methods."
Sorry there, mate. I probably "over-answered" your question. It's a sore subject for me after working with children for many years.
2007-01-28 05:54:42 · answer #6 · answered by Me, Thrice-Baked 5 · 1⤊ 5⤋
The government should protect children from abuse...not from discipline. Can't people figure out the difference???
2007-01-28 06:21:48 · answer #7 · answered by The Mama 3 · 4⤊ 2⤋