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-277 |
CADRP-277 |
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Smacking is not child abuse and to categorise it as violence is completely misleading. Over 80% of adults admit to being smacked as children but certainly do not think their parents were child abusers.It is a parents role to decide whether or not, in loving discipline, to smack their children without interference from government
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I believe it would be totally counter productive
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only 11% of Welsh adults registered their agreement with this bill, according to a 2017 ComRes poll, while 76% disagreed
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Police and social workers would inevitably have to deal with trivial reports, thus not enabling them to pursue actual cases of child abuse. When a smacking ban was introduced in Sweden, child on child violence rose by a factor of 17
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Funding for police and social workers is already greatly stretched which the introduction of this bill could only exacerbate
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Thousands of loving parents would be turned into criminals overnight without doing anything to help those children who are actually suffering parental abuse.