Do you agree with liberals that parents who spank their kids should be charged with a crime?

Question

From (where else?) the People's Republic of Massachusetts:

Tuesday, November 27, 2007

If signed into law, parents would be prohibited from forcefully laying a hand on any child under age 18 unless it was to wrest them from danger, lest they be charged with abuse or neglect.

Charles Enloe, 45, of Plymouth, knows a little something about that. In 2005, he was infamously arrested and charged with assault with a dangerous weapon for taking a belt to his then 12-year-old son during an argument over homework.

The charges were later dropped and Enloe told the Herald yesterday the experience “didn’t change my views at all. I believe discipline starts at home. Are they going to start legislating that you can’t raise your voice to your kids? That you can’t tell them when to go to bed? We’ll be communists then.”

http://www.bostonherald.com/news/regional/general/view.bg?articleid=1047241

Um, Mr. Enloe...you live in Mass.
You pretty much are communists already!

Answer 1

I don't. I think some kids just won't listen to reason without a swat on their hinny's. That is my best guess. I swated my son only twice in his life. Once when he was 3, for getting into my sinus medicine, and once when he was 7 for using a toy sword to poke another child with. He is now 10, and wears a dress shirt and tie to school out of choice! HIS choice! I try and tell him no, he needs to wear cloths that are nice but he can still play in, but he's insistant. A fine young man he's become, and apparently the two swats he got for bad behavior taught him right and wrong....and of course, how to be safe. He never needed more than those two swats.
If Liberals acted like parents, instead of letting their kids be in charge of them, we wouldn't need Jerry Springer, Montel Williams, Maury Povich, and all the other talk show hosts trying to "fix" our lives!

Answer 2

That law is absolutely absurd! Anyone with one ounce of intelligence and sanity should be able to tell the difference between abuse and discipline! I do think that parents should be prosecuted for hitting their children with belts or objects because that constitutes abuse, but spanking a child does NOT constitute abuse. Laws against child abuse need to draw those distinct lines and boundaries between abuse and discipline.

To Mr. Stiggo: I understand your point. But, the reason it's acceptable to spank your minor child, but not anyone else, is that there's a good reason to spank your minor child: Discipline. There's no way you could apply discipline to hitting anyone esle. In fact, no one could ever possibly come up with a good reason to hit anyone besides thier own minor child. It was never considered morally wrong for a parent to spank a child because people can understand that parents need to do that to teach thier children a lesson and raise them properly. As long as parents are not causing physical harm or injury to their children, they should be allowed to discipline their children however they see fit.

Answer 3

Because the abortion rate is so high, the liberals are running out of juvenile delinquents, so they want to create some more. Appropriate chastisement is what re-programs the brain. It means that social workers have no one's life to ruin. Two social workers see a woman dying in the alley, calling out for help. They walk up to her and say to each other, "Whoever did this needs help!" and then they walk away, with the victim choking on her own blood.

Answer 4

You know why we have kids with guns in school? We stopped spanking in school, that's why. Too many sensitive parents. Being lib or con or anything in between has nothing to do with the issue. We are too permissive these days.

Don't generalize because I am what you would call a lib and I tend, in principle at least, to agree with you on this. Does that make you a lib too? Or are your generalizations simply the work of a troll meaning to upset someone?

Answer 5

I do not agree!
Abuse is much different than spanking a child. There are kids out there now that have had no discipline and see how our f"in country is turning out. We have kids shooting kids. There needs to be more discipline with these children, but parents, be warned you have to do it with love and be calm, otherwise it really is abuse.

Answer 6

Absolutely not... And further, it being quite evident that liberals have no clue as to the difference between child abuse and disciplining a child, Liberals should be "fixed" and not ever permitted to adopt or even be around children.

Answer 7

There is a major difference between spanking and beating. There's no way that a disciplinary action that didn't harm the child should be charged as a crime. So to answer, I disagree that they should be charged with a crime.

Answer 8

I spank my kids when they really need it, it is not abuse, and I think that most normal people know the difference. I meet lots of parents that spoil their kids, don't use effective discipline techniques etc, and then tell me my kids are so well behaved they wish they could get theirs to behave like mine.

Answer 9

I disagree 1000%, the bible stated quite well spare the rod and spoil the child. The less discipline is used on children the more problems we have with them. I would never stoop to a belt on my children. As long as punishments are administered when you are not angry than it should never be an issue.

Answer 10

No I do not. Matter of fact had the parents of these legislators taken the flat of their hands against their tiny butts way back then, then perhaps we would not have the problems we do today with the out of control.......state/federal governments.........