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Thursday May 17, 2012

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  • John of Caloundra on Spyware a breach of liberties? Erm; spyware I thought is illegal regardless of it being on kids computers or the ones at the library. I'm not sure hackers ... more
  • mick on Choice between China and USA? Cry people with morals and nouse get your point very clearly, these morons have no morality and certainly no nouse just like ... more
  • John of Caloundra on Tony Abbott on Drive Ah, Amy with her fairy tales. Not grounded in reality. And cry, happily we live in Australia where people contribute to ... more
  • Richard on Choice between China and USA? So I take that as a yea for communism then Bob.Too many faults too list.China is not our freind, Bob.In fact China has major ... more
  • John of Caloundra on Will they have to go back? Well, twice the courts have heard both sides of the story (as opposed to most of us), and twice have decided to return the ... more
  • John of Caloundra on More Origin games in Melbourne? I heard Dickson say that he's busy talking to the racing industry. I hope he is making sure he's talking to the greyhound ... more
  • Peter R on Choice between China and USA? I bet Tibet would like to choose a godfather between USA & China. more
  • Bob Lord on Will they have to go back? The courts say they go back, they should go back. more
  • Bob Lord on Choice between China and USA? Dear CRYSo America joined WWII to save China? I thought it was because Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. And we were there to ... more
  • John of Caloundra on Choice between China and USA? Gee Cry, its almost as if previous alliances are reviewed on an ongoing basis! And it's almost as if individuals comments ... more
  • CRY FREEDOM on Choice between China and USA? Richard, I believe Bob Lord has finally shown his true communist colors, the capitalist society caused the GFC statement is ... more
  • CRY FREEDOM on Choice between China and USA? To the uneducated I will explain, America supports China from Japanese aggression and in return gets attacked themselves. ... more
  • Bob Lord on More Origin games in Melbourne? No way, one every three years is plenty for Melbournites. All they do is mock our superior NRL game anyway. more
  • Bob Lord on Choice between China and USA? Gee, I don't know. Go with our biggest trading partner whose economy is thriving. Or go with the warmongers whose economy is ... more
  • Bob Lord on Tony Abbott on Drive Dear CRY, Bella and DickThe LNP have made it clear, they WILL be repealing the Carbon Tax and all that is linked to it, they ... more
  • Richard on Tony Abbott on Drive If there is no Carbon Tax then there is no need for tax cuts or pension increases.Thanks for that Bob,BRING IT ON! more
  • Richard on Choice between China and USA? Communism or Democracy.Why are we even entertaining the thought?Bob Carr is a nutcase, but gets elevated to Foreign Minister ... more
  • John of Caloundra on Choice between China and USA? Wow, it's easy to engender fear and anger in the digital age, isn't it? And Cry, why do you point out this "history" as ... more
  • John of Caloundra on ACTU calls for casual workers to be ... Absolutely. It's too easy to whack someone on a casual rate and leave them in that situation where they have little job ... more
  • CRY FREEDOM on Choice between China and USA? From 1937 to 1941 a war raged between China and Japan, the USA in support of China put sanctions of raw materials on Japan ... more

Smacking laws

Posted by: 4bc.com.au | 3 February, 2012 - 4:23 PM
Smacking

4BC Afternoons: Should smacking children be made illegal? Moyd and Loretta spoke with Dr Gervase Chaney from Perth, who is campaigning for it to be banned, as other countries also consider adopting much tougher laws on the subject.

Blog comments Your Say

  • I worry when we are only given part of the information, Dr Chaney states that Europe has been successful in parenting by legislating against smacking a child , what he does not state is that in 2003, 84% of the child abuse cases in Europe were found to be made up of false accusations, this then meant that those parents had to contend with investigations that eventually caused long term harm to the family unit.
    It is also interesting that since 1992 when Germany and Sweden banned smacking there has been an increase in Youth Violence and crime with Sweden having a 58% rise in reported rapes in the ten years from 1999 to 2009, now all of this could very well be attributed to reasons other than the fact that smacking children is banned, but if a child is not disciplined correctly and taught right from wrong from a young age then these are usually the outcomes.
    All children are different and react to different forms of discipline and I doubt any one Dr would have experienced them all

    Gayle Tuesday 7 February, 2012 - 5:25 PM

  • This will absolutely trivialise child abuse.
    Child abuse will become synomonous with smacking.
    We will hear of cases of child abuse and write it off as another case of a child getting upset over a smack.

    Richard Tuesday 7 February, 2012 - 1:54 PM

  • How many young kids must suffer injury or worse because of lack of parental control. I sometimes wonder if i would be still alive if not for punishment dealt out to me by parents and teachers for disobedience in my junior years.

    Mike. Tuesday 7 February, 2012 - 10:22 AM

  • This subject happens to be one of the little bents that these world wide socialists are pushing. Further this subject is beyond the fact that this person is a paediatrician is irrelevant and his opinion on the matter carries no further clout then any other person who has children. JOC grow up.

    mick Tuesday 7 February, 2012 - 8:36 AM

  • Hey Mick - the guy's a paediatrician - that IS his day job you dope! Oh and socialism is related to this HOW?

    Peter B Monday 6 February, 2012 - 9:36 PM

  • Mick, "i have had five children"? was the "missus" at the birth for support?

    roger Monday 6 February, 2012 - 5:05 PM

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