Is it true the Brits are going to make it against the law to spank your kid?

[GtoRA2]

Is it true the Brits are going to make it against the law to spank your kid?

I heard a snippet about this on the radio but did not catch the whole story? Something about a girl who was abused dying and this law will be the result?

If this is the case, it is incredibly stupid. There is a difference between spanking or other forms of corporal punishment and child abuse.  I got spanked as a kid and I think I turned into a pretty good adult. I do not think time outs would have worked for me.

I fail to see how this will prevent kids from getting hurt and killed by child abusers. There must have already been laws on the books about child abuse?

[ravells]

More here:


http://society.guardian.co.uk/children/story/0,1074,984439,00.html

Ravs

[DmdNexus]

Originally posted by GtoRA2
Is it true the Brits are going to make it against the law to spank your kid?

I don't know about spanking kids...

But I once had a british lady give me a spanking...after all, I was a bwaad bwaad naughty wittle bwoy!

[Maverick]

Originally posted by DmdNexus
I don't know about spanking kids...

But I once had a british lady give me a spanking...after all, I was a bwaad bwaad naughty wittle bwoy!

Good thing it wasn't an enema or you'd have faded from the earth!!!


JK:rofl

[DmdNexus]

Originally posted by Maverick
Good thing it wasn't an enema or you'd have faded from the earth!!!
JK:rofl

Faded? nah... just would have given birth to more of the same kind of right wing conservative pro Bush turds that inhabit this BBS.

[Ripsnort]

Originally posted by DmdNexus
Faded? nah... just would have given birth to more of the same kind of right wing conservative pro Bush turds that inhabit this BBS.

According to your own post...

Economic Left/Right: 2.00
Libertarian/Authoritarian: 1.23

..you're one of them! (minus the bush support)
(And to add insult to injury, you're further right than I!:eek: )

[DmdNexus]

Originally posted by Ripsnort
(And to add insult to injury, you're further right than I!:eek: )

That's because you're a left wing back seat driving tree-hugging environmental-freaking jew-for-jesus frog-fornicating flower-pressing pansie-prancing limp-wristed tie-dyed in the wool LIBERAL!

[Ripsnort]

Originally posted by GScholz
Corporal punishment is prohibited in most civilized societies.

Without it, those civilizations become uncivilized. Ironic isn't it?

http://parenthood.library.wisc.edu/Larzelere/Larzelere.html

[AKIron]

Originally posted by GScholz
Punishment is of course necessary. Corporal punishment is not. It's paradoxical to beat your kid for fighting at school (for instance). There are far better (and harder) forms of punishment available that don't teach your children to use violence to solve their differences.

Great, whatever works for you. Don't presume to tell me how to raise my kids and I won't tell you how to raise yours. Unless of course your's are ill-behaved and trample on the rights of others. When that happens undiminishingly then you have failed and someone else must provide the discipline.

[Ripsnort]

Originally posted by GScholz
Punishment is of course necessary. Corporal punishment is not. It's paradoxical to beat your kid for fighting at school (for instance). There are far better (and harder) forms of punishment available that don't teach your children to use violence to solve their differences.

We're in total agreement then (I think...do you think its okay to give a kid a swat or two on the rear end?).

I haven't had to physically discipline my kids since they were 3.  Just getting in their face is enough to scare even an adult.

[AKIron]

Originally posted by GScholz
I would never presume to tell you how to raise your children, I do not have that authority. My country is not the one trampling on the rights of others, nor do we feel the need or right to "provide" discipline.

Since I feel that you are hinting at Iraq I'll say only that you are also not participating in or supporting the liberation of a people enslaved by tyranny for over 30 years. If that makes you proud well then we'll just never see eye to eye.

[AKIron]

No prisons in Norway? Those are disciplinary institutions are they not?

[Ripsnort]

Originally posted by GScholz
I'm hinting at me not feeling to have the right to tell you how to raise your children ... or how to run your country, including "disciplinary" action.

Maybe I missed something but did not your country's representive for the UN vote "Yes" on UN resolution 1441, which had the wording "that "it will face serious consequences" if it continues to violate its obligations as spelled out in the resolution?

If that is the case, then you don't represent your country in that statement of yours.

[Shuckins]

If Mrs. Schicklegruber had swatted little Adolf's behind a few times with some real authority the rest of humanity might have been spared the joys of WWII.

Or maybe not.

A few good swats never did me any physical damage or ruined my psyche.   Aheeaheeaheeaheeaheeahee.

Shuckins

[Ripsnort]

Originally posted by Shuckins
If Mrs. Schicklegruber had swatted little Adolf's behind a few times with some real authority the rest of humanity might have been spared the joys of WWII.

Or maybe not.

A few good swats never did me any physical damage or ruined my psyche.   Aheeaheeaheeaheeaheeahee.

Shuckins

Personally, I can't remember ever being disciplined, however my parents say they did so quite often! Up to about age 3, then just the fear of Dad in your face was enough to shape you up right quick!~  I'm finding his methods to be excellent!  Naturally, positive reinforcement outweighs punishment if used in liberal quantities.  The more positive reinforcement when they're behaving well, the less punishment they require.