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Originally Posted by lucy7
The use of a cane Roger is open to abuse in the home as well.
I was a victim of that.
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yep it can be but that has always been something you can get arrested for ( though admittedly the police were very reluctant to do so but any punishment that could be seen as abh was always prosecutable
but taking it away as a means of control from parents is not the way
( lol defending the other side for a bit
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i blame the NSPCC for their FULL STOP campaign and the ever present social workers for demonising this
there is no comparison between some father belting seven bells out of a child with his belt or fists which should lead them to prison and a smack on the bottom with the hand to enforce a message to a young child
but even with that support i see no help with smacking a child once its old enough to reason with as it shouldn't really be being used as a punishment it should be being used to teach
as in i will and have smacked a child's hand for going near a fire though some social workers would say not to but the child learned with 2 smacks not to touch it much quicker than if i had tried to explain it to this by talking to them at two years old
i have seen mother at nursery crying because they had smacked their child for similar reasons because they think social will take their kids if they find out
this is where it is going wrong schools dont ever need the cane but parents need to be shown how to use discipline correctly and fairly with children before they are 5
equally when parents abuse that right they should be dealt with with the full force of the law but at the moment they know not what they can do