England should consider following Scotland and Wales in banning the smacking of children, the children’s commissioner has said.
Dame Rachel de Souza has signalled her support for changing the law to give children the same protection from assault as adults.
Blogger: here we have the usual handwringing from the do-gooding classes who have brought us crimewaves, unsafe streets and moral degeneracy.
Thanks.
What they forget is that a sharp slap across the nearest buttock is hardly 'violence'. It is an immediate response to bad behaviour. Move on
Without this, punishments must be long-lasting such as 'no sweets for a week' or 'you can't use computer games all weekend' and similar.
Longer punishments create resentment and almost always separate the wrongdoing from the consequences - a very serious miscalculation.
The 'usual suspects' will rabbit inanely about 'abuse', 'savagery' and 'brutality. Sorry guys but those parents who do actually brutalise their kids will continue to do so. Wrong targets!
The decent parents who smack as reasonable chastisement will probably stop doing so. Social indiscipline beckons. I remember the increase in bad behaviour in schools when the cane was banned.
Countless parents will end up shouting down their mischievous brats, roaring in suppressed anger until they fill them with profound fear and leave possible psychological damage.
Ban smacking? - No. Sorry. The price is too high.
