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-508 |
CADRP-508 |
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Banning smacking can have a number of consequences for our society.Firstly as a parent and grandparent who used smacking as a loving discipline to teach when something is wrong I feel that this Bill will cause loving parents to be turned into criminals overnight while doing little to stop bad parents abusing children.This in turn would overwhelm police and social workers with trivial reports that will waste their time and also allow genuine child abusers to get overlooked.Smacking is not child abuse there is a clear difference between abuse and loving parental discipline.Secondly the law already protects from violence so it is completely misleading to describe a loving smack as violence.As a child I was regularly smacked by my parents for doing wrong things but never considered it to be abuse and accepted it as punishment for my wrong doing.
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Smacking is used to warn children of dangers before they are old enough to understand a verbal warning.I recall an occasional when my young son tried to put his finger in the socket I shouted at him but he ignored me so a gave him a tap on his hand.He never tried to do it ever again so criminalizing smacking actually jeopardises children's safety.
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As I mentioned previously I think the police and social services would be further overstretched something that both bodies could do without considering the workloads already placed on them.
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