Commissioner Keith Towler: Smacking 'doesn't work'

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My parents used to smack me when I was a child. It made me angry and resent them.

I think that smacking “works” because its intimidation, pure and simple. Do what I say or I shall hurt you. I think that do what I say or have consequences which will make you feel bad is better, so I shall not spank any children I have.

I don’t think its a good approach for children to be bought up in either. Monkey see, monkey do. Nothing to stop them repeating that approach on the playground.
 
LemonAndLime said:
“Children should be entitled to the same level of protection as adults. There’s no such thing as a safe smack.”

He said disciplining children through physical punishment was not effective, and that in some cases it can do physical and emotional harm.
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I absolutely agree. Hitting a kid needs to be outlawed
iamrefreshed said:
Normal parents who discipline with a smack feel 10x’s worse about it than the child does.
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Not a chance
LemonAndLime said:
My parents used to smack me when I was a child. It made me angry and resent them.
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As a child, my father was hit by his father for stepping out of line. He was also hit by teachers for stepping out of line. It’s been several decades and he’s still bitter about it.
Do what I say or I shall hurt you.
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Physical intimidation is no form of love
Nothing to stop them repeating that approach on the playground.
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Violence begets violence
 
I personally oppose corporal punishment-----but on the other hand, I think it is insane for the state to try to regulate that. Although I personally would rather parents use other methods to discipline their children, ultimately, that is their choice-----and if it truly “works” for them, fine. More power to them. But this is insane. Truly.

More secularism at work.
 
Gift_from_God said:
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This has nothing to do with secularism
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In my experience, (again, MY experience), most people who want to regulate and 'criminalize" this sort of thing tend to overwhwlemingly be of the secular, “separation of church and state” people. There ARE religious and non-religious non-spanking people (including me) but they do not believe the government should get involved in this. Do you?

That is what I was getting at.
 
OrdinaryMelkite said:
In my experience, (again, MY experience), most people who want to regulate and 'criminalize" this sort of thing tend to overwhwlemingly be of the secular, “separation of church and state” people. There ARE religious and non-religious non-spanking people (including me) but they do not believe the government should get involved in this. Do you?

That is what I was getting at.
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Again, nothing to do with secularism. It deals with abuse
 
bbarrick8383 said:
Which is completely your opinion, because in my opinion it has nothing to do with abuse.
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“Don’t fail to correct your children. They won’t die if you spank them. Physical discipline may well save them from death” (Proverbs 13:24)

Apparently God is an advocate of child abuse! 🤷
 
Gift_from_God said:
Hitting a child is abuse. It’s inexcusable
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I don’t hit my child, abuse is done out of anger, I spank my child because I love him. I’m 6’3" 225 lbs and about as rough and tough as I can get, yet spanking my son nearly brings me to tears and it’s about the only thing that nearly brings me to tears. That’s why it’s only happened on a couple of occasions when he was way way out of line, and his behavior was unacceptable to the point that he was not listening to words.

My parents spanked me, I have no bitterness toward them. Heck my high school principle spanked me and I outright deserved every bit of it.
 
Scott_Lafrance said:
“Don’t fail to correct your children. They won’t die if you spank them. Physical discipline may well save them from death” (Proverbs 13:24)

Apparently God is an advocate of child abuse! 🤷
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Apparently these all knowing liberals are beyond the wisdom of God.
He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.
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Mary_Gail_36 said:
I’ve never seen it once where the parent is calm, and says, “Junior, come here for your spanking.”
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Perhaps not, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen. That is how my Dad did it, and I have nothing but love and respect for him and always have. It was always clear that the spanking was about me and not about him. Plus, he stopped when I was old enough to feel shame and true remorse when I did wrong, making corporal punishment unnecessary.

Hitting a child can be child abuse, but it is simply not true to say it is always child abuse. No matter how many times someone says it, it will still not be true. I don’t have kids, and have never hit a child in any way, so I’m not saying this to try to justify any actions of my own.

–Jen
 
Gift_from_God said:
And now you’re bringing liberals into this. Ridiculous
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No, you brought yourself into it.

I’m sure by know you have figured out how to prevent yourself from becoming part of these discussion…just don’t click the reply button.
 
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