Anti-Smacking bill.
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| Holly.Is.Retro Writer's Block  Age: 16 Gender: Female Posts: 34 | The only way a kid can learn is if it gets a smack on the head or bum a couple of times. But the parent shouldn't go smack happy. That's frowned upon in many societies. |
| Maxwell Green. Cliché Catastrophe  Age: 69 Gender: Female Posts: 551 | This is hard to just say and do. It's true that sometimes a little smack can prove a point, but parents take it too far... spankings, wrist pulling, slapping across the face, hitting hard... oh, yeah. It's all been done. In fact it's all been done to me, as a punishment, not just for joy. Once my dad was angry so he slapped me, across the face. He missed, and dug his fingers into my lip, and I started bleeding. None of that would have happened if it weren't proper to smack a child when they've done something 'wrong'. Is it right? Of course not. No child has done something bad enough to deserve being put through pain. But I do beieve that a small smack on the hand for an infant can prove a point, since they don't understand the meaning behind 'right' and 'wrong' yet. If you smack them once, they'll understand that if they do something like that, it causes them pain. When they grow older, they don't need to be hit, they'll already understand. But once the child is older than 4 or 5... it should be illegal to smack them. In my opinion. |
| The last Dagny Writer's Block  Age: 18 Gender: Female Posts: 83 | i do think parents should be able to spank their kids..besides no one had any right how to tell you know to raise your kid. |
| alexx! Writer's Block  Age: 17 Gender: Female Posts: 76 | Hah, well, I guess this has kind of a personal thing for me, like a lot of people.. :] When I was younger, I got a few spankings. Not a lot that I remember, but one I do, and I know I deserved it. I also know a lot of kids / teens that did not get spankings, and they, to be honest, are spoiled rotten and act like little shits. One person that I know of is one of my friends (more like sister. We grew up together & she's 15.) is spoiled, gets everything she wants, and constantly talks back to her parents. They take it all, and say nothing. Is that right? My cousin is nine years old, and has never gotten disciplined. He is moody, gets cranky when he doesn't get his way, and throws major fits. If you ask me, if he had gotten a few spankings when he was younger, he wouldn't be this way. I think it's okay to spank your kid. The only thing I have a problem with is if it gets out of control and leaves bruises. |
| jason white. Fanfic Fanatic  Age: 14 Gender: Female Posts: 1540 | I'm both for and against this. (That probably doesn't make much sense but I shall explain.) For: It will should cut down on abuse from parents. Which will result in fewer depressed teens and suicide. I think that this does though as it's flaws, because the parents could lie about it. But half of me is for it. Against: If this were to happen then parents will continue to abuse their children (Well, not all parents but some). But a spanking or two or a slap on the wrist is perfectly fine, and will eventually teach their child not to do that or whatever. Hope I made some sense. (I'm really tired. [/spam]) |
| HeartSearching Ink Slinger  Age: 14 Gender: Female Posts: 840 | I am against hitting your child. It can make them emotionally unstable because they can only handle physical pain instead of emotional as a result of being hit all the time as a kid. |
| jason white. Fanfic Fanatic Age: 14 Gender: Female Posts: 1540 | CardiacArrest:But what if they did something bad like punching another kid? I think that a little slap on the wrist is fine, or a spanking is fine. But not full blown abuse or anything. |
| scoutfinch Amateur Author  Age: 21 Gender: Female Posts: 127 | I think a tap on the hand when they've already had a warning and still aren't behaving isn't really a problem. Obviously any alternative is prefered, like a time out or whatever, but I still think parents should be able to make the choice. When I was a kid my mum would hit me if I was misbehaving and not listening to her; nothing hard, just a warning. And I stopped. And I knew my dad was dead set against it, so I tested his patience. Ultimately I think it's up to the parents so long as it isn't hard enough to cause any long term pain and is within reason. |
| Modern Myth Fanfic Fanatic  Age: 14 Gender: Female Posts: 1584 | I'm pretty much against this. A child I babysit, he's 2, Whines, yells, screams, when you don't get him to do what he wants. For example, If he wanted to go play with a electric fence, and you tried to get him away from it, he would throw himself down on the ground, cry, yell, and scream until you let him go get himself shocked. And I used to get smacked, little smacks on the wrist, and, I turned out somewhat normal. I probably don't get hit as much as I should. rotfl. |
| music_is_love Amateur Author  Age: 17 Gender: Female Posts: 101 | i agree with what most people (that i had the patience to read) are saying. i mean, me, my older brother and sister were spanked and smacked and stuff, and we turned out fine, (well, except my brother, but that's because he's an idiot. lol) my little sister was never hit, and she's the biggest brat in the world. and if they DO pass it, what about the good parents that are going to get punished for spanking their kid? it's going to punish people for being a good parent? and (yes, this is a little far-fetched sounding, but not really when you think abuot how screwed up some people are) what about those kids that really hate their parents, or people that hate the parents and want to see them suffer? they could hit themselves/the kid and blame it on the parent, getting THEM in trouble. This whole thing is ridiculous. People are trying to prove that they're doing something to help, when all they're doing is making the police even more divided and unfocused than they already are. is their job not difficult enough without having to deal with going after Mother One for slapping the knuckles of the kid, then Daddy Two for what seemed to be an "unprovoked spanking" that was reported by a nosy neighbor that didn't know what was going on? okay, my rant's over. XD lol |
| Scarecrow Angel Cliché Catastrophe  Age: 20 Gender: Female Posts: 351 | I got smacked as a kid and it never seemed to do me any harm. But then, there is an enormous difference between smacking and hitting, and I know some people who have whacked their children too hard purely by accident. It sounds stupid, but sometimes you need to cater to the lowest common denominator, as their are people out there who use smacking to justify something that is practically abuse. And yet, I would have thought that smacking to the point of injury would already be covered by domestic violence? |
| jacky jules. Fanfic Fanatic  Age: 14 Gender: Female Posts: 1302 | I don't believe in violence. |
| kill me Abba Amateur Author  Age: 14 Gender: Female Posts: 276 | Bastard Son.: I feel exactly the same, you get spanked and it works, you get time out and it doesn't work as well. But there is a boundary between abuse and punishment. |
| ZoeePea Fanfic Fanatic  Age: 16 Gender: Female Posts: 1904 | It's really a case of whether the kid deserves it or not. I'm pretty much against violence or all kinds, but I've seen some awful children who really need to be taught what's right and what's wrong. |
| Fall Out Haley. Ink Slinger  Age: 16 Gender: Female Posts: 816 | I don't think it should be legal to hit your kids, because some parents take it way too far. |
| Choking-Hazard Writer's Block  Age: 17 Gender: Female Posts: 47 | In all honesty I would hit my kids every once in a while just to tell them not to do something. Many past generations had that as a usual punishment when they were little and they turned out fine. Just as long as parents can ditermine the difference between beating and spanking. |
| Fall Out Haley. Ink Slinger Age: 16 Gender: Female Posts: 816 | ^^ The thing is, there are some parents out there that do not know the line between beatings and spankings. I mean, no child deserves to be put through physical pain because of a minor mistake. I mean, I've seen kids get severely slapped in stores for whining about something. Granted, the whining is annoying, but isn't there other alternatives? |
| Cocaine. Ink Slinger  Age: 14 Gender: Female Posts: 782 | I'm actually not quite sure about the UK anymore, really. But yeah, I don't think that parents should have any right to hit their kids. My father has only hit me twice in my whole life, and my mother, never. I'm not exactly a terror-teen, so I really don't see the need for it. The way I see it, you'd get arrested for randomly slapping a stranger. Why does it make it better when it's a child in your family? |
| Evanescent Dasha Ink Slinger  Age: 17 Gender: Female Posts: 897 | I think giving a kid a smack on the butt or upside the head or hand is acceptable. If you don't abuse the kid a simple smack won't hurt them. If they did something wrong or bad, they should be smacked not patted on the head and told to not do it again. |
| AvengingAngel Writer's Block  Age: 15 Gender: Female Posts: 25 | i'm from the boondocks i guess you could say, and how my brothers and i were raised, was to get a good spanking if we did anything wrong, if your are only spanking and not hitting any other place i think it's just fine, kids these days get off too easy |
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