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 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. "There is a cultural norm in the Philippines that we can hit children in order to discipline them. That's what we wanted changed with this Bill," Dy said.
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