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Delaware Child Abuse Bill Worries Parents (could outlaw spanking)
WBOC ^ | 6/26/12 | LeAnne Matlach

Posted on 06/27/2012 3:35:11 AM PDT by markomalley

The Delaware Attorney General's office says nearly 1/3 of child abuse cases aren't able to be prosecuted because of current laws. Senate Bill 234 is meant to change that and help kids who are being hurt.

The bill redefines physical injury to a child, to mean any impairment of physical condition or pain. Senate Bill 234 has parents worried whether or not they can spank their children.

Mark Salerno is a stay-at-home father of three and he is against spanking.

"I don't believe in spanking your children, there's other ways to discipline them," he said. "I don't think physical pain should be endured on a child."

Salerno says young children can't understand the act of spanking, so to them it isn't a learning lesson. It is just pain.

But for Lupe Torsky, a little bit of pain helps her granddaughter behave when they're in the car together.

"I told her, 'You either stop or else I'll whip your butt,' and that's what I call it," she said. "A spanking is I'll whip your butt. So she didn't stop, she continued and I warned her. I pulled over to the side, I unbuckled her and spanked her."

Some parents want spanking written into Senate Bill 234 as exemption.

But Patricia Dailey-Lewis says the bill was never meant to target parents who responsibly discipline.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; US: Delaware
KEYWORDS: nannystate; parenting; spanking
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To: MrB

My wife used a wooden spoon.

All she had to do was head toward the drawer and it straightened them righ out.


21 posted on 06/27/2012 6:42:53 AM PDT by Venturer
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To: DaveTesla
However when your children grow older and refuse to listen to the police when told to pull their cars over they will be beaten with clubs and fists.

Ding,ding,ding - we have a winner!

Don't ask libs though to think beyond their current emotion...

22 posted on 06/27/2012 7:47:02 AM PDT by jonno (Having an opinion is not the same as having the answer...)
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To: markomalley

There is no end to this crapola.


23 posted on 06/27/2012 10:02:04 AM PDT by Leep (Enemy of the StatistI)
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To: Venturer

“My wife used a wooden spoon.

All she had to do was head toward the drawer and it straightened them righ out.”

It only took about twice with the wooden spoon for my kids to figure out I was serious if I reached for it. And no, I didn’t beat or bruise them, but at around age 3, it did leave and impression on their egos and enough of a sting to know that mom meant business. Both of them graduated from college last year with honors.


24 posted on 06/27/2012 1:31:29 PM PDT by pops88 (Standing with Breitbart for truth.)
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To: markomalley
It is legal to spank you child in Oklahoma, the legislature put that law on the books, so move where your parental rights are respected, Oklahoma.

They are a little picky about football though.

25 posted on 06/27/2012 1:43:13 PM PDT by itsahoot (About that Coup d'état we had in 08, anyone worried yet?)
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To: pops88

Congratulations.

The other rule is not to threaten them to wait for daddy to get home. If kids need punishing they need it at the time of the offense.


26 posted on 06/27/2012 6:12:06 PM PDT by Venturer
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To: markomalley; Eric Blair 2084; SheLion; Gabz; Hank Kerchief; 383rr; libertarian27; traviskicks; ...

Democrat politicians need to be spanked early and often.

Nanny State PING!


27 posted on 06/27/2012 7:32:07 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Occupy DC General Assembly: We are Marxist tools. WE ARE MARXIST TOOLS!)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Thanks for the ping!


28 posted on 06/27/2012 8:49:18 PM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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To: markomalley
The Delaware Attorney General's office says nearly 1/3 of child abuse cases aren't able to be prosecuted because of current laws.

[facepalm] Then doesn't that mean the kids AREN'T BEING ABUSED, you fuckwit???? What, are the laws an inconvenient impediment to you imposing your personal will on those rascally citizens of Delaware? Poor boo boo!

On another note, spanking outlawed? They can have my hands when they pry them from my cold, dead, uh.....wrists! Yeah!

29 posted on 06/27/2012 10:13:59 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: markomalley; Tax-chick
"I don't believe in spanking your children, there's other ways to discipline them," he said. "I don't think physical pain should be endured on a child."

[facepalm] Neither do I! Where do you WANT to be while you're enduring pain? I don't think grammar should be endured on people elected to statewide office.

30 posted on 06/27/2012 10:16:14 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: Still Thinking

I believe physical pain should be tattood on elected officials. Who ARE these people, anyway?


31 posted on 06/28/2012 3:01:29 AM PDT by Tax-chick (Spinach at every meal.)
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To: Tax-chick

Don’t forget SCOTUS. They deserve a LOT of pain today.


32 posted on 06/28/2012 7:59:46 AM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: MrB

It does. It is in the Bible. Proverbs 23:13


33 posted on 07/02/2012 5:34:03 PM PDT by conservatice person
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