Should Smacking Children be made illegal
Poll: Should Smacking Children be made illegal
Total Members Polled: 600
Discussion
Trying to control children through violence or threats of violence doesn't work. That much is clear; if you head to any council estate in the UK around 7.30pm on Friday when hoardes of well slapped youths take control of the streets.
Is it OK to slap your girlfriend, so long as you don't bruise her?
Is it OK to slap your girlfriend, so long as you don't bruise her?
slow_poke said:
Yes. It's abuse.
The law doesn't allow you to smack any adult when you feel like disciplining them, why should it be ok to attack children?
So your child bites his younger brothers arm or pokes his eye out with a pencil, or stamps on your dogs testicles, you just simply say NO don't do thatThe law doesn't allow you to smack any adult when you feel like disciplining them, why should it be ok to attack children?
it's nasty and make him/her sit in the corner? for them then to bite you? etc etc etc?
Respect is needed, rarely smack mine as they know how too behave, i only need my voice, but sometimes that's not enough.
Edited by superkartracer on Saturday 11th October 22:13
I got my arse smacked once or twice as a child, but only when I was being a right 
as I recall. Didn't do me any harm. At first I didn't see why the goverment should be able to tell genuine, loving and caring parents how to raise their children.
I've since realised that most parents these days are none of those things, so the ban is there to prevent the jacked up chain smoking doleys battering their poor Talula-Champagne to death for having the cheek to try and escape from the basement during Jeremy Kyle.
as I recall. Didn't do me any harm. At first I didn't see why the goverment should be able to tell genuine, loving and caring parents how to raise their children. I've since realised that most parents these days are none of those things, so the ban is there to prevent the jacked up chain smoking doleys battering their poor Talula-Champagne to death for having the cheek to try and escape from the basement during Jeremy Kyle.
I think it's okay to discipline small children as a last resort by a softish smack - which normally works (it did for me) but obviously as they get older, it just looks stupid, trying to smack the legs for a 13yo lad!
Proper ull-on smacking though (time and time again) is a big no-no though and is actually assault.
Proper ull-on smacking though (time and time again) is a big no-no though and is actually assault.
slow_poke said:
Yes. It's abuse.
The law doesn't allow you to smack any adult when you feel like disciplining them, why should it be ok to attack children?
Since when is it attacking? It is a smack. The law doesn't let you smack any adult when you feel like it because they are not YOUR CHILDREN!! There is a slight difference between a random adult and your own child. It is your responsibility to bring up your child the way you think best. There are a lot worse things than smacking a child. I'm not talking about all the time obviously, but as a form of discipline when they need teaching that they have crossed a line that cannot be crossed. The law doesn't allow you to smack any adult when you feel like disciplining them, why should it be ok to attack children?
I was smacked as a child, sometimes pretty damn hard by my dad. I learnt that when I had been smacked I had crossed a line, and that it was way more serious than when he just told me off. It works!
Would you rather the situation continues where kids get more and more unruly in full knowledge that they can never be properly disciplined.
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