Smacking should be banned, say four UK children's commissioners who back 'non-violent forms of child rearing.'
In a report sent to the UN, commissioners from England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland call on the government to 'immediately prohibit all corporal punishment in the family'. Mail. (All this at a time when child behaviour has probably sunk to the lowest point in our nation's history!) So who has appointed loonies to key positions? Are they gonna be sacked? If not - well, why not? Nobody advocates abuse - but a child without fear, by and large, is a child which will do whatever it likes. I saw corporal punishment - caning - banned in Rotherham schools and saw the behaviour deteriorate - exactly as predicted.
