For me it's about respect, I respect my children too much to think about inflicting physical or mental pain as punishment. I cannot understand a country which allows me to hit someone physically weaker and smaller than myself without facing legal recourse, but would prosecute me for hitting some 'guy in the street'? How can this country condone the truamatising of children through physical abuse? We are outraged by stories of 'wife beating', we open refuges for 'adults' who are harmed by their spouses, we encourage these 'grown ups 'to prosecute their abuser and increasing these bullies receive custodial sentences......!! Why aren't we similarly horrified by scenes of brutalised children? Why aren't we encouraging them to leave home and run to a local authority run safe house? Why aren't we drumming it into children that physical abuse is never acceptable and should never be an option and that if their parents hit them, then that is wrong and that hitting anyone else would be considered assault and would carry a possible custodial sentence? I can only assume that 'hitting' children is a widepread norm in this country, and that behind closed doors in hundreds of thousands of streets in Britain parents enforce rules and express their displeasure through physical violence. If these same abusers were to find that within their own daily lives they did something that another adult didn't like they would be smacked across the arse, clipped around the ear and that no-one would care, they would soon be demanding laws to protect them. The Government must be aware that if they did outlaw the hitting of children by parents then the current legal system would be ill eqipped to deal with the huge influx of prosectutions, and that the Child Protection teams within local authority Social Services departments would overwhelmed. The Goverment obviously has no intention of spending any more money on the provision of services for children at risk through increased social services facilities and legal services (I'm the parent of thee children raised on respect and not rampant hell-raisers) Judith Haire added this link: http://www.alice-miller.com |
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