Consultation on the Children (Abolition of Defence of Reasonable Punishment) (Wales) Bill
Tystiolaeth i’r Pwyllgor Plant, Pobl Ifanc ac Addysg ar gyfer craffu Cyfnod 1 Bil Plant (Diddymu Amddiffyniad Cosb Resymol) (Cymru) |
Evidence submitted to the Children, Young People and Education Committee for Stage 1 scrutiny of the Children (Abolition of Defence of Reasonable Punishment) (Wales) Bill |
CADRP-122 |
CADRP-122 |
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The law is perfectly adequate at the moment to cover all situations. It already protects children from violence and abuse and it is ludicrous to equate a smack with violence or abuse. I say this as someone who avoided smacking my children and who is resolutely against violence against people of all ages but the current politically correct view that smacking as violence or abuse is ridiculous. I well recognise violence against children. The most violent place I ever entered was Scottish schools where each teacher was armed within a leather strap which was used liberally and almost indiscriminately. I was whacked on numerous occasions, the most infamous of which was three strokes of the belt for misspelling one word wrongly. And I. was top of the class.You can imagine what happened to those of lesser intelligence. That is why I campaigned against corporal punishment in schools and was highly pleased when it was abolished in the late 80s. Now to equate that undoubted violence against children with a smack is outrageous and totally unjustified.
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Absolutely not. My views are trenchantly expressed at 1.2 above
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Given that I believe the bill to be comprehensively flawed, I hope that it falls long before implementation
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I believe the bill to be misconceived and so have no views on potential barriers
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Unintended consequences will surely be to criminalise parents and potentially to overwhelm police resources. The latter will be unintended but the former may well be foreseen by the authors of the bill
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No
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Ill conceived and time wasting. Designed solely to satisfy political correctness