Scotland and the Smacking Ban

[Pumperthepumper]

Absolutely delighted to see the news yesterday. Couldn’t see a thread about it but sorry if I’ve missed one. Will the rest of the UK follow, do you think?

Almost all the submissions to the consultation were against the ban.

So in the history of child-rearing, everyone who has ever hit their child has been a sadist?

So the result of a survey just before the legislation passed was:

Green MSP John Finnie, who introduced the legislation, said it was a “historic and courageous” step which sent a message that “physical punishment has no place in 21st century Scotland”.

However, a snap YouGov poll conducted suggested that 55 per cent of Scots remain opposed to making smacking a criminal offence.

@pamperramper have you got a link for those stats?

How much violence do you allow? How hard and often are people allowed to hit you when you make a mistake?

Just come out and say it. Be honest. You'd like to carry on being able to hurt and humiliate your children. Or you think other people should be allowed to hurt and humiliate their children. When you get to the heart of it, that is the only reason anyone has for opposing the ban

Agree with this.

pamper No, I'm not suggesting they all get sexual gratification from it. Just that nobody hits a child unless they want to, and hitting causes the child to feel pain and humiliation.

I don't want to hit my DS, so I don't. You want to hit your child, so you oppose the ban.