Smacking a Child...
I read this Article and Was disgusted by Blair Words.As a father I am against Children getting Smacked, And I feel the Goverment should make it Illeagal to smack a Child as it is Cruelty to the Child.What he is saying you can go out smack someone else as long as you dont hurt them..Smacking a Child Hurts the Child doesnt it.It is time for it to become illeagal to Smack a Child those that do should be Punished.January 2006 Campaigners have renewed calls for children to be protected against all forms of physical discipline after Tony Blair revealed he had smacked his older children.Mary Crowley, chief executive of the Parenting Education and Support Forum, said children should receive exactly the same protection from the law as adults. "The law should protect children, there should be the same protection as adults protected by the law of assault, so that if things got bad, they can actually have recourse to justice," she told BBC Breakfast.Caroline Abrahams, director of policy for children's charity NCH, said: "What the Prime Minister said about smacking older children but not his youngest is completely consistent with what is going on in our society. It is a bit like the way that smoking was once viewed as acceptable but now people feel highly embarrassed about it."Jack O'Sullivan, co-founder of the group Fathers Direct, and author of the guide He's Having A Baby, said smacking was "dying out" as a means of disciplining children.He said Mr Blair's own experience of having smacked older children but not his youngest reflected the trend.An amendment to the Children Bill outlawing the "hitting" of youngsters was rejected in the House of Commons in November 2004.The Bill instead allowed mild smacking, while barring any physical punishment which caused visible bruising.Family campaigner Lynette Burrows defended parents' rights to smack children, saying the pendulum had "swung too far"."Children need smacking... nature teaches us all throughout our lives by a small input of pain. If we do not have a small input of pain, children would never survive the first two years of their lives when they are learning to walk."
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