MANILA: A draft law that would have made it illegal for parents to smack their children in the Philippines has been vetoed by President Rodrigo Duterte, the presidential palace said on Thursday .
The president has also called for the age of criminal liability - currently 15 years old - to be lowered, to give more teeth to a narcotics crackdown that has claimed the lives of more than 5,000 drug suspects.Richard Dy, spokesman for the Child Rights Network, told AFP rights groups were surprised at Duterte's veto, and said his organisation will call on Congress to vote to override the veto so it becomes law.
Studies have shown that corporal punishment of children could lead to depression, suicide, or turn victims into child-smackers themselves when they grow up, Dy added.
Somebody needs to smack the shit out of him.
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