NEW ZEALAND: Smacking kids faces ban by 2005

The Dominion Post, Wellington, NEW ZEALAND ^ | October 7 2003 | Leah Haines

[shaggy eel]

As a child I was smacked and realise that it was always for good reason. The downstream effect for me is that I've ended up on FreeRepublic as a paragon of virtue. The real need for smacking really lies with voters, to smack politicians like Helen Clark and Steve Maharey into line. Discipline and abuse are two different issues and the UN, which is governing New Zealand thru these marxists, needs to realise that.

[shaggy eel]

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[GSWarrior]

A well placed smack to the posterior is sometimes called for. Striking a child the face is (going way out on limb here) wrong.

[Tai_Chung]

Social Development Minister Steve Maharey said the law which permits "reasonable force" by adults against their children would be gone in two years.

Only "unreasonable force" will be allowed?

[dead]

This reminds me!

I have to go to New Zealand and smack some kids before 2005.

[snopercod]

It's still OK to slap women around though, right? <r,d,&g>

[concordKIWI]

A slap in the face isn't good, but there is nothing wrong with a smack on the ass. There are times when I feel it is apropriate. Hey, in SFO, people pay money for that.

[Jaded]

There is in the normal course of child rearing a huge difference between discipline and abuse. These people have no clue what it is. If you spend all of your time begging your children and fretting over their self-esteem you will have pushy monsters. But you already knew that.

Beyond that this article deserves a big eye roll.

[shaggy eel]

,,, direct your letter of intent to Steve Maharey - he recently claimed in Parliament to live a "blameless life of exellence."

[shaggy eel]

It's still OK to slap women around though, right?

,,, it's never been OK to slap women, but womyn are another issue [LOL].

[annyokie]

It depends. When I called my mother a "b*tch" when I was 16, she slapped me into next week.

[GSWarrior]

Just a guess. McClintock supporter? Me, too.

[shaggy eel]

Hey, in SFO, people pay money for that.

,,, more than I need to know, but with the way the economy is, whatever it takes to turn a buck, I guess.

[azhenfud]

I've always heard smacking was impolite. Leave it to the impolice to make it against the law.

[dead]

I think the poorly-worded headline is leading people to believe that this is a ban on smacking children's faces.

It is just about regular old spanking, isn't it?

[shaggy eel]

Beyond that this article deserves a big eye roll.

,,, indeed, you're 100% on the money. The irony is, Helen Klark and her sisterhood of matrons in charge are predominantly childless.

[concordKIWI]

Times are hard, money's tight- calls for desparate measures

[ElkGroveDan]

The easy answer is for the parents to schedule a cruise for their summer vacations. Then they can tell the kids all year, "Just you wait until we're in international waters young man, then you're really going to get it!"

[jwalburg]

Next week then or next week next week?