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Smacking children same as abuse?

Posted by: 2UE | 3 February, 2012 - 7:44 AM
Unanswered questions over Heiner Affair & child abuse

There's a push for mum's and dads to be banned from smacking their children, claiming hitting a child is similar to child abuse. The Royal Australasian College of Physicians is considering joining a campaign.

Terry Kelleher from the Australian Family Association says a ban would undermine parents authority.

 

 

Jason Morrison looks at the alternative options used today rather than smacking. Giving children boundaries, telling them what you expect of them.

 

David Oldfield speaks with Dr. Gervase Chaney, paedeatrician from The Royal Australasian College of Physicians who is calling for child smacking to be made illegal.


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  • Dr. Gervase Chaney needs a smack to the back of the head and told to wake up fool!

    Protect children keep them off the road! Saturday 4 February, 2012 - 10:27 AM

  • Does anyone know if Dr Gervase Chaney has any children? If so, how many children and how well behaved or otherwise are they? What we have to achieve here, as the first step is his credibility or lack thereof. If he has no children then his opinions are baseless. Does Doctor Chaney practice what he preaches?
    The fact that he attempted to draw a paralell between hitting children and hitting old people with dementia gives us a good clue as to how desperate he is to "push his barrow".
    Much of the anti social behaviour that we see in our society has its roots in lack of real discipline at home.
    You can't fly an aeroplane by simply learning the principles of aerodynamics.

    John Saturday 4 February, 2012 - 9:50 AM

  • Parents can no longer discipline their kids, kids run wild in schools, teachers no longer want to teach because they have no control in the classrooms, will some politician get some balls and make some changes NOW !!!!!!

    Peter Saturday 4 February, 2012 - 8:38 AM

  • Under Islam, muslim men can beat the wives as along as they do not hit the women's faces. They believe this is honoring them. Beating your wives is perfectly acceptable. Under Christianity, a husband is to love the wife as Jesus loves the church.

    proud infidel Friday 3 February, 2012 - 3:32 PM

  • Smacking a form of child abuse? That's not a fact. It's an opinion. A opinion that exists stronger in the media than in the community. Itâ??s an attitude that comes from trying to be very pure over the issue of violence and assault.

    But traumatizing children by having police come around to arrest parents for abuse allegations over a simple smack - that IS abuse in more far reaching ways. It happens in New Zealand. Such methods are an abomination to the cause.

    For those people who think smacking is abuse, I wouldn't trust THEM to smack ANY child, because it would NEVER be out of concern for the child, only retaliation

    Liberator Friday 3 February, 2012 - 2:33 PM

  • Yes I got caught shoplifting when I was 13, thankfully my upset mother beat me with a wooden copper stick. Otherwise I most probably would of ended up in gaol or worse, like a lot of my out of control schoolmates with some of them dead. At school I deservedly got the cane on my hands nearly every week, until I finally got the message, that truanting school and being cheeky was forbidden. Todays undisciplined, violent bullying schools are a stark contrast. All because of the political, new age, slime green Labor Teachers Federation who have severely dumbed down our now illiterate, innumerate children and brainwashed our frightened school children with slime green Labor ideologies. i.e. Like their ridiculous, fraudulent global warming propaganda, gender neutrality etc, etc instead of teaching and confirming the necessary 3 R's. And these damned lazy teachers have the audacity to be always complaining for even more money and less work. Little wonder so many concerned parents have resorted to home schooling. If they can't afford good private schooling!

    Sandy Friday 3 February, 2012 - 1:41 PM

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