In some Northern European countries there are laws against parents hitting a child.
But a parent who hits a child is not usually penalized.
I wish more of our lawmakers had the guts to at least say abortion is wrong, even if they can't accept the idea of punishing those involved.
http://www.cei.net/~rcox/hitting.htmlOver five million European children are already protected from all physcial punishment in their home as well as in institutions. Five European countries - Sweden (in 1979), Finland (in 1983), Denmark (in 1985), Norway (in 1987) and Austria (in 1989) have adopted laws which prohibit parents hitting their children. The purpose in each case has been educational; to change attitudes, not to punish parents. There are no criminal penalties attached to the bans. The reforms have not led to a rush of children taking their parents to court over physical punishment, and numbers of children taken into care in Sweden and the other Scandinavian countries are low and reducing.