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- Bukowsky, on 11/29/2007, -43/+449NO. Spanking should not be illegal. Sometimes your kids need to understand who's the boss, and if slapping them in the butt is the only way to get the message across, then spank away!
There is a HUGE difference between spanking as a punishment & beating your child. This is just more wussification of america! - Animental, on 11/29/2007, -28/+350Cute. Either the nurse who proposed this doesn't have children or her children are completely spoiled brats.
- Shadowfox99, on 11/29/2007, -20/+229Who here got spanked when they were a kid? I was, and i turned out alright
- UNL1M1T3D, on 11/29/2007, -6/+154Tazer.
- TheOneGreatX, on 11/29/2007, -7/+130don't taze me dad
- GRTWHT, on 11/29/2007, -13/+127Child abuse is already illegal, no need to outlaw spanking as (unless you're not doing it right) it's not abuse.
- oreonblade, on 11/29/2007, -17/+130If you love your kids, love them enough to spank them so that they don't grow up to be whiny, spoiled brats.
- kooft, on 11/29/2007, -9/+112Legitimate spanking is nothing more than conditioning. This is used until the child is capable of adult like logic and reasoning. Every parent, and most non-parents, know that it's not the force of the hit that affects the child, it's the act itself. You can simply pat a child on the but while expressing disapproval and you'll get the proper response.
Beating a child because you're mad, yeah, that should definitely be illegal. Actually, it already is... - weirdralph, on 11/29/2007, -24/+119There's zero evidence that disciplinary spanking is harmful to kids. The "studies" that indicate otherwise make no distinction between spanking and true child abuse.
- chalkboy, on 11/29/2007, -18/+101Hell no this is what is wrong with all of those kids that run around stores like dumb asses. Spanking is not abuse.
- affanjam, on 11/29/2007, -15/+93Wussification of America....
- inactive, on 11/29/2007, -9/+83Tomorrows Headline: Should Spanking Your Monkey Be Illegal?
- shabumike, on 11/29/2007, -12/+86Well I think we should ban spanking all together. It is immoral that we should instill right and wrong in our children through violence. Instead when a child is bad we should electrocute then with tasers. They are proven to be safe.
- pugnator, on 11/29/2007, -6/+53I'm actually thankful that my parents spanked me. They probably kept me from doing stupid things I should not have done in the first place. There is nothing wrong with parents instilling some discipline in their children when they misbehave.
- noahhoward, on 11/29/2007, -4/+48Never had to be, dad was 6'4 with hands bigger than my head, I was 2' nothing, all he had to do was threaten to spank me. I turned out fine.
My dad's parents made him and his sibling go and cut their own switch and make sure it was a good one or grandpa would cut one worse. He turned out fine. - Spamcan, on 11/29/2007, -13/+55Not only do I think parents should be able to spank their kids, I should be able to slap those parents in the back of the head when they ***** stand around talking on their cell phones while their little brats run around being destructive and obnoxious. How did this even become an issue? Parents wont do ANYTHING to control their children anymore, much less give them a few slaps on the ass.
- 1KrazyKorean, on 11/29/2007, -41/+82HELL NO...How else you going to shut a screaming child up..
- flangepiece, on 11/29/2007, -3/+40Luxury. We used to have to get out of the lake at six o'clock in the morning, clean the lake, eat a handful of 'ot gravel, work twenty hour day at mill for tuppence a month, come home, and Dad would thrash us to sleep with a broken bottle, if we were lucky!
- Berkana, on 11/29/2007, -7/+41You want to know why you need to spank your children? Peter Russel explains it best:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEsg-0lYC_c - moosepile, on 11/29/2007, -11/+44No way.
Things are already bad with the current generation. Can you imagine the generation of pretentious, selfish, holier than though little ***** that would come out of a childhood where their parents were charged with abuse for spanking? Kid aren't dumb and they learn early how to manipulate that.
What does a mother bear/dog/cat/whatever do when the cub is pissing her off? Gives it a swat.
A fear of physical harm is a basic instinct. It's part of parenting. - inactive, on 11/29/2007, -4/+34This issue depends what can actually be outlawed.
would we still be allowed to dragon kick our children? - kuzotz, on 11/29/2007, -2/+31Man I was spanked as a kid to.
***** outside got my pants pulled down and got the belt for acting out in the mall.
I remember that *****.
Nowadays no one does this!!! WTF???!?!?!?
Kids today are bad ass hell. Its like they're the generation that gets to cuss out their parents and get away with it. - DeskFlyer, on 11/29/2007, -11/+40My parents used to utilize a wooden yardstick to keep me in line.
- TotalHalibut, on 11/29/2007, -5/+33Physical discipline should always be one of the tools in a responsible parent's toolbox, along with other methods like positive reinforcement, confiscation, time-out and other such techniques. There is not one of these methods that works all the time, you need to judge the situation and then take appropriate action. My child receives all of these methods, and more besides, depending on what's going on. He is rewarded with a Star-chart which he can use to put stars towards various different 'treat' activities (this teaches him about personal choice and being decisive, as well as having to save up for things he wants), however, he is often punished with the 'naughty chair', which he hates (nothing worse than denying a child stimulus and all attention possible) and yes, sometimes he receives physical discipline and if this causes him to cry, so much the better, it will leave an impression.
A minority of children will grow up just fine without spanking, most will not. - Blah_Blah_Blah, on 11/29/2007, -2/+30***** NO it shouldnt be illegal! it should be encouraged! Parents need to start disciplining their damn kids!
- UNL1M1T3D, on 11/29/2007, -8/+35No for the simple fact of where do you draw the line? Beating your kids is already illegal and people still do it. The only thing this is going to do is waste even more time and tie up our court system more.
- inactive, on 11/29/2007, -4/+28Sometimes spanking is needed. You can try to explain to a kid that they shouldn't touch a hot stove or run out in to traffic, and if they do you might not get a chance to give them a 'time out' and restrict their quality Nintendo time. A swift smack on the ass before they commit the offense is a good way to get their attention. There is a difference between a punitive spanking and abuse. When I was a kid i respected adults, because if I didn't i would face immediate consequences. Now, with the elimination of corporal punishment in schools and in the home we have a generation of spoiled, violent kids with no respect for other people. The lack of real consequences for anti social behavior leads to a society of sociopaths, just the opposite of what the feel good 'I never hit my child' idiots would have you believe.
- Shawn4168, on 11/29/2007, -5/+26"i turned out alright"
Source? - knobtwiddler, on 11/29/2007, -10/+31and you obviously don't have a kid
- Nerotique, on 11/29/2007, -12/+33My sister has two boys that act like retarded gang bangers. She doesn't spank them. I believe she's setting them up for failure in life. Conversely, my Father beat the living ***** out me when I misbehaved. I now have an advanced degree, work for one of the largest computer companies in the world, and am not doing bad financially. If you love your kids... beat that ass! If your Dad spanked you when you were a kid, thank him!
- adrianmonk, on 11/29/2007, -2/+22I agree. I also think that it IS a form of abuse to neglect your responsibility to properly set boundaries and discipline your child. If you let them eat all the candy they want and run around screaming in public, you are denying the proper opportunity to mature. And that's abuse, in a way.
- sb66, on 11/29/2007, -3/+22Don't tase me dad!
- inactive, on 11/29/2007, -15/+34Nope.
- latrosicarius, on 11/29/2007, -1/+18If a parent really wants to abuse their child, there are ways of doing it that won't leave bruises. So again, this is like another gun control fiasco... it only restricts law-abiding people, and the abuse will still continue.
- inactive, on 11/29/2007, -8/+25Look at nature. Every mother scolds her young.
- inactive, on 11/29/2007, -0/+16It's Russel Peters, the submitter of that video got it wrong.
- coyoteblue, on 11/29/2007, -0/+16Mine had a spoon with a smiley face.
Whenever I acted up, they would smile and say, "do I need to get Mr. Spoon?" - rudy23, on 11/29/2007, -8/+24I am indian and my parents used to whoop my ass as a kid. Now in retrospect I would have probably gone to the dogs if they hadnt
- advancedOption, on 11/29/2007, -4/+19It is illegal in New Zealand. Every right wing nut came out protesting about it. Fact is so much child abuse that does end up before the courts was being excused as 'reasonable force'.
Only one person has been charged since the law was passed. The right have used it to say the law is turning innocent parents into criminals... yet the facts were:
The father lost his temper (admitted it)
The child had bruising on his shoulder, back, and butt
The mother reported it
...and it had happened before
He was put under 12 months supervision, and if he re-offends in that 12 months he will probably go to jail.
New Zealand has some of the worlds worst child death rates, and laws like this will hopefully help catch these parents before they go too far. When you see the right wing nuts coming together to protest something you know you're on the right path. - FluffyWolf, on 11/29/2007, -1/+15Spanking is illegal in most European countries.
"Spanking of children within families is illegal in some countries (for example, Japan, Sweden, Switzerland, Iceland, Finland, Denmark, Norway, Austria, the Netherlands, Germany, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Malta, Cyprus, Croatia, Bulgaria, Romania, Ukraine, Latvia, Estonia, Greece, NSW Australia and New Zealand)."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanking#Legal_situat ... - inactive, on 11/29/2007, -2/+16That argument sucks... While kids are growing up in extreme poverty you're browsing digg?
- pugnator, on 11/29/2007, -3/+16Dugg for the Four Yorkshiremen reference.
- adrianmonk, on 11/29/2007, -1/+14I don't think you understood what CaptHappyPants was saying.
He wasn't saying kids shouldn't be spanked. He was saying that the people who are pushing to outlaw it are doing so because they have a guilty conscience and are trying to compensate for their own shortcomings by changing the law. - Arramol, on 11/29/2007, -0/+12What evidence? All the evidence I've seen indicates that spanking is not only harmless, but tends to promote better behavior.
- coyoteblue, on 11/29/2007, -0/+12only if I can do it for you
- modusop, on 11/29/2007, -4/+16Last time I checked hitting someone (especially a kid) doesn't keep them from screaming...
- jjesusfreak01, on 11/29/2007, -0/+11Apparently you dont know anything about conditioning...it has to be an aversive stimulus, or it means nothing to the kids...
Anyways, nothing that could be characterized as beating should never be used. A parent should only administer spankings when they are calm and not angry, or they cant assure they are doing it for the right reasons. - barnett25, on 11/29/2007, -0/+11Were you spanked or beat?
There is a difference. - bonkeykong, on 11/29/2007, -0/+11Only if she's hot
- coyoteblue, on 11/29/2007, -1/+12i think that should be a law
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