Why has it become a crime for parents to spank their children...?

Question

... when the child is misbehaving? I am a firm believer in the saying "Spare the rod, spoil the child." Just because people are so uptight nowadays, a parent can go to jail for trying to discipline their kid?!? There is a huge difference between physically abusing your child and smacking them on the butt for acting like a little brat. Boggles my mind! How about you?

My mom spanked my me and my sisters when we were bad... My dad spanked us to take out his anger on us. I don't hate either of my parents, and me & my sibs turned out just fine.

Answer 1

Let's not even go there. I think it is ABSOLUTLY REDICULUS to see parents out in public being screamed at by their children. "time out" is bull, spank your damn kid before I do. It will do them a world of good.

Answer 2

I'm reading the responses and people are confusing discipline with abuse. Some parents cross the line? There was no line in the first place because they're abusers and they're hitting their kids for the sole purpose of hurting them. But there is nothing wrong with smacking a child on the butt when they're being bad and defying the rules. I don't see someone going to jail for that. If a parent is bruising or breaking skin then they went too far, but on the other hand, if you're hitting your kid hard enough to bruise or break skin you're probably abusing your kid in other ways. There is nothing wrong with swating a child on the behind. My dad spanked me because I was a little devil child. I deserved it.

It's sad in this day and age because everything a parent does can be seen as something strange to others. Like, taking a bath with your kid or your 3 year old wanting to run around naked has suddenly become taboo and wrong. People need to keep their nose out of other people's business.

Answer 3

I too feel that spanking now and then is OK. I think it's more aimed at the parents who abuse the ability to discipline and take it too far. They had to set guide lines because one parent may feel like a spank now and then is OK...like me...but another parent may feel it is OK to whip their child with a wooden spoon because they dont know what 8x4 is..not so OK anymore. There has to be limits and some people feel that making it illegal for a parent to spank their child is better then having children go to the E.R. on a regular basis with whip marks and broken bones.

My son is the type that I can talk to till I'm blue in the face and it wont make one bit of difference. You sit him in the corner and he sits there the whole time mocking me or making a game out of it. I should be able to spank my child reasonably since I would rather use a spank to get my point across rather then see my son hit by a car because he wont listen to me when I tell him to stop.

It's all these darn hippie tree huggin liberals that are making these laws and teaching our kids that society can do what thye please and there wont be any consequenses to suffer because its "not nice". So Lets all kill unborn children, lets do away with the death penelty and let killers live in jail eating good meals and watching cable tv, or let ILLEGAL immigrants come here and suck our resources dry even tho they are criminals...etc. But the bottom line is to let everyone have freedom and fairness! Stupid liberals! The world needs discipline!

Answer 4

It is not a crime, at least in Canada and the US. In Canada, a parent has the right to use reasonable physical punishment in correcting a child. The US has similar laws by state, some more liberal than others.

My two have received a few good skin on skin spankings before where I was well within the law.

Answer 5

i believe the good Lord gave us a butt for 2 reasons..to sit on and to spank...today the kids have more rights than we do as a parent...its called child abuse now to spank your kid...but yet if we dont correct their behavior now and punish them..when thye grow older and get into seriosu problems they say its the parents fault...my kids are all grown up now but i spanked them when they needed it...i dont care what society says..theres a big differance between child abuse and correcting them...

Answer 6

I don't believe you can go to jail for smacking a child's bottom, but like you said, there is a difference between that and abuse. There is a line and sometimes it's blurry. The thing that gets me? How can you tell a child not to swat at or hit a playmate, then you turn around and hit them?

Answer 7

i don't believe anyone human should have the right to hit another especially a child or even baby the problem is some parents might give a lite tap to get the point across and it would be fine but others might get out of control.i think a law banning spanking children is good.

Answer 8

well, you shouldn't smack them on their butts because your just taking your anger out on them, they'll hate you for it. It will be a HUGE burden in their hearts. You should slove this solution in a better way. Other wise their gonna do it over and over again. It's not teaching them a lesson, it's JUST hurting them, there still gonna be the same. And it's kind like a threat, "If you don't stop blah blah blah then your gonna get spankings"

Answer 9

So many parents have trouble distinguishing the line between abuse and discipline. When parents can't draw that line someone else needs to step in and do it for them.

Answer 10

"Since Sweden passed its ban on corporal punishment in 1979, 10 other nations have followed: Finland, Norway, Austria, Denmark, Cyprus, Croatia, Latvia, Israel, Germany, and Iceland. The purpose of these bans is to explicitly recognize children's rights to protection under the law - the same rights that adults take for granted. In addition, Italy's highest court has ruled that "the use of violence for educational purposes can no longer be considered lawful."

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