Pro-smacking lobby: change the law, or else

20 Sep 2009 03:52p.m.

cerise wrote:

Ha, Mark: Smacking isn't the only form of punishment. You're making it out like if we don't smack, the child can do anything? I promise that some of these teenagers who "have no respect for society or themselves", such as the ones who skip school and rebel or whatever, have been smacked as children. Not that I'm claiming all children who get smacked turn out this way (or even many of them). I'm just saying your claim is based entirely on your own assumptions. I don't really have an opinion either way, but most of the arguments for pro-smacking that I have seen are really unconvincing. But maybe Mark is a bad example.

31 Aug 2009 01:22a.m.

mark wrote:

You only have to live in the uk and see that making a parent a criminal for smacking their child and the teachers in a position of not being able to reprimand with the deterant of a smack just has not worked, when you have a child that can do whatever they want without any fear of reprimand apart from being shouted at you then lose the ability to control and teach the lifeskills we all need in our upbringing,in a sense you are putting a child in full control of their own future without any intervention from an adult unless the child wants that intervention,and tell me a child that does !! Did you ?? Whether it be a parent or a teacher they need that ability to control,kids are out of control in the uk,and then they as still kids themselves with no respect for anything or anyone end up having kids,they then have no respect and they have kids and it goes on and on and on,common sense has been lost due to the extreme minority of parents that do abuse their children and to protect the few we run the risk ruining the rest by taking away the rights of parents to make that adult concious decision that the only way to deal with a situation is to smack,not punch,attack or beat,just smack,you tell me a parent that wouldnt lay their own life down to protect their child,and yet people seem to think that a child who is hanging around the wrong crowd,choosing that wrong path at an early age, and is abusive either physicaly or verbally,vandalises property,steals and is only 10yrs of age will sit down and listen to a good stern shouting at,get real wake up and smell the coffee,that child needs a goood smack and feel their ass stinging,otherwise by the time that child is 15 he will be lost and have no respect for society or themselves.If not smacking works,why is the younger part of our society so violent,they are not taught right and wrong anymore ,just allowed to do as they please.Stop looking for a perfect world by destroyng the one we have got..

24 Aug 2009 04:45p.m.

Chris wrote:

Sue Bradford sent her kids to school in the snow bare footed to show others "how poor her family is". If that isn't child abuse, nothing is.