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-330 |
CADRP-330 |
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— No
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I believe it is very important to respect the rights of parents. Parents generally know their children best and should be free to discipline them with a smack if necessary. There is a huge difference between a loving smack and child abuse and most parents are reasonable enough to know this. Parents need to be free to lovingly discipline their child with a smack when they are too young to properly understand verbal reasoning. Many of us were smacked as children and did not feel it was child abuse, and you will find that most parents in Wales are against this legislation, as recent ComRes polls in 2017 show. It is wrong to push through a radical bill like this against the wishes of the people you are representing.
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No, there is already adequate legislation in place to protect against child abuse. This legislation will cause a waste of police and social work time, when they could be concentrating on genuine cases of child abuse. It is a terrible prospect for caring parents to have a criminal record for disciplining their children - how will this stop those parents who are the real child abusers? How will this have any effect?
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