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Tuesday, November 27, 2007
Pols debate ban on spanking
Parents who spank their kids - even in their own homes - would be slapped by the long arm of the law under an Arlington nurse’s proposal to make Massachusetts the first state in the nation to outlaw corporal punishment.
Kathleen Wolf’s proposed legislation will be debated at a State House hearing tomorrow morning.
If signed into law, parents would be prohibited from forcefully laying a hand on any child under age 18 unless it was to wrest them from danger, lest they be charged with abuse or neglect.
Question from the obviously unenlightened: Don't those of us who spank our children do it in order to "wrest them from danger"?
Read, then tell me what you think.
Labels: Children, News, Social Observation, Theater of the Absurd
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