Anonymous ID: 409329 March 24, 2019, 5:50 p.m. No.5872629   🗄️.is đź”—kun

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/mar/25/smacking-children-to-be-banned-in-wales

Parents are to be banned from physically punishing children under legislation being introduced on Monday by the Welsh government.

Ministers in Cardiff are hoping Wales will become the first country in the UK to stop fathers, mothers and other adults acting in a parental capacity from smacking children to punish them.

The law would remove the defence of “reasonable punishment” that has been in force since Victorian times in England and Wales.

The Welsh government insisted mothers and fathers would still be able to parent effectively. It said the proposed law would not stop a parent from grabbing a child about to step out into a busy road, or brushing a youngster’s hair against his or her will.

But it argued that the time when it was acceptable to strike a child to punish misbehaviour had gone.