Attack on parenting facing delay

WorldNetDaily.com ^ | May 01, 2008

[Man50D]

A proposal in the California Legislature that would define a well-deserved spanking administered in love by a concerned parent using a rolled-up newspaper as child abuse – and could send that parent to jail – now is facing a delay.

The plan, AB 2943 by Assemblywoman Sally Lieber, D-San Jose, is a rerun of her same plan that was defeated a year ago. She has stated that her proposal only addresses "child abuse" but she also defines any spanking at all as child abuse.

Several California organizations that support traditional family values and parenting rights have raised a red flag over the issue again this year. Now the Campaign for Children and Families confirms that the plan has been delayed, and it credits a flood of telephone calls and e-mails from those concerned about the issue.

"It the last two days, Assembly Appropriations Committee members have received hundreds of phone calls and e-mail messages from Californians opposed to the notion of criminalizing parents who lovingly and infrequently spank their children to correct misbehavior," the organization said in a statement today.

"On Wednesday, the committee placed AB 2943 on the 'suspense file' due to expected high enforcement costs in the midst of a $10 billion state budget deficit," the group said. It noted May 23 is the last day for AB 2943 to be approved by the committee, if that action is going to take place.

[Man50D]

"Innocent parents who lovingly and infrequently spank their children to correct misbehavior are not criminals. But they would be under AB 2943," he said.

"... There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one MAKES them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. ......just pass the the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced nor objectively interpreted -- and you create a nation of law-breakers -- and then you cash in on guilt. Now that's the system, Mr. Reardon, that's the game, and once you understand it, you'll be much easier to deal with."

- p.411, Ayn Rand, ATLAS SHRUGGED, Signet Books, NY, 1957

[3catsanadog]

What - is this broad going to keep bringing the spanking issue up for vote over and over until she gets her way?

[junkman_106]

obviously not a parent herself...at least not a full-time participating type of parent. None of my children are criminals.

[MrB]

I hope the HSLDA is in on this.

This is a defacto outlawing of Christian parenting.