Comments on: Is Smacking Child Abuse

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By: taylah

taylah — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 06:54:12 +0000

through my whole childhood, i have been smacked. I strongly think that it is an outrageuous way to disipline your children. Speaking for myself, it never tought me anything, it just made me terrified of my step dad and mother. Yes somtimes a simple tap on the bottom or slap on the hand is ok, but when it is the continuous abbusive of slapping on face, twisting of arms, smakin so hard that it feels like you are having a fist through your stomah or the wooden spoon getting smahsed agaisnt your legs, then i personally think it is too far. To parents who think it is ok to smack, i have only one thing to say… SHAME ON YOU. How do you want your children to look up to you. I was smakced when i was little, and i can never look at my parents in the same way. There are other forms of disiplne rather then smacking. LEARN SOME !!

By: Annette

Annette — Fri, 11 May 2007 03:16:21 +0000

It is a sad state of affairs since the rights of the parents to disipline the children has been taken away, sometimes a smack is nessesary, there is no support for the adults that are being abused by children, tbecause they do not like the rules in the home or school ect, the Goverment has given children the support to call abuse when they can not get their own way. My children had been given all the phone numbers at primary school to ring and tell on me if I said no or gave them a smack, luckily for me my children never did this as they recognized that I had their best interest, not so some of my grandchildren, 3 of them are verbally, physically and mentally abusive, 2 of them have the 3rd so intimidated he has to join in , the abuse of others, or he will be the victim again, their mother lets them run their own race and disipline of any kind is scarce she does not believe in smacking, their father is one for disipline and sometimes a smack. The parents are divorced and she regularly uses the Government non smacking Law to exclude him from access to his children, by ringing Docs to report him. I am not sure whether the Government thought that this law could be used as a weapon in this way. Children are taught to use this law to manipulate the parents. So many Government representates think it is so sad we have so many children living on the streets, and wandering the streets, but our power to keep them at home is gone. Centre link and Docs believe them and help them move out of home, and I have seen where this leads as Debra has. One of my Grandchildren, when put in time out for his behaviour said, that is deprevation of my freedom and I am going to ring and report you for abuse, there is nothing you can do. The sad thing that is while Docs are consentrating on the allegations by the manipulative children, real abuse is really not being addressed. I know of 2 drug addicted parents that constantly fight and hit, while one is holding the baby, Docs make appointments to do there checks on this couple, so they make sure the house is clean and there other drug addicted friends are not there, they only have a small maintance hit, and low and behold they have passed the inspection. But they spend so much time on I was smacked and sometimes they never were, and go after these people with avengence and prosocute them. The schools can only suspend these children from school when they play up badly, but another of my Grandsons, used this punishment to his advantage, the week the cricket was on. I can only see a very bleak future for this country. Our children do not get taught consequence for their actions, they just learn manipulation skills.

By: ezza

ezza — Wed, 02 May 2007 07:08:31 +0000

i was smacked as a child. but it was onlt when i was naughty. smacking can become abuse when you use any thing other then your on bare hand

By: debra

debra — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 01:57:14 +0000

I have seven children in my care. Four of our own and our three grandchildren which have been put in our care by dhs. This situation has only come about as the state made it that we could not retreive our seventeen year old daughter from the place she had run away to be with her heroin addicted boyfriend. We could not force her to come home, we could see her life was in danger but were told by the authorities we could not take her out of this unless she agreed to go. That was six years ago now she is a heroin addict, mother of four children four years old and under of which we are bringing up three at the request of the state. This is hard for all concerned and it could have been avoided if we had been allowed to take her against her will into her family with people who truly love her. We did not abuse her. She was taught at school by who? The other students, teachers, civil libertarians that she had rights now where are these people who taught her this? Are they bringing up her children? Are they breaking their hearts over what has become of her? No they are nowhere to be seen we who had no rights now have to try to make good of this situation. Now it is our responsibility. If I was in the same situation again I would bring her home whatever the cost, they could charge me take me to court - whatever to save my child from the hell she now lives. These laws are stealing our childrens futures - thier potential and lives.