Wales is right to ban smacking. But it’s not the whole solution | Nell Frizzell

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Legal remedies alone won’t protect children when the support services that parents need to cope are being destroyed, columnist and writer Nell Frizzell

When you’ve been awake since dawn, you haven’t spoken to another adult for six hours, you’re having your first period in two years and your baby is refusing to go to sleep despite having been awake since 4.22am, there is a very fine line between playfully flicking bits of sheepskin out of your child’s hand before they eat it, and just hitting your child.

 

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about the only times when the guardian manages not to choose some sort of interracial picture is when the article is about negative things

They must come to South africa and see how we are even afraid to admonish our kids .. they are controlling us and beating the teacher and other parents... Don't even try

So you can kill a child while in the womb but you can't smack the child once it's born. Strange!

In no way do I condone beating children but sometimes a light smack is effective.

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