Professions, which involve the responsibility of children, such as teachers or nursery workers, have been stripped of the right to smack children simply to try and stop bullying and increase civility. This has not happened and has actually created a negative effect. Increases of bullying, teachers leaving and even getting abused themselves. Should we criminalise loving parents for a few smacks? Doesn’t this seem harsh for something that can save them from the likes of bullies and becoming bullies themselves, and what’s more, stop something that that teaches children valuable lessons?
Making smacking a crime only stops people like social workers seek out those who lightly slap a child rather than those who really are getting abused. Is this logic? No. What a society needs are straight-headed people who know right from wrong. Smacking is discipline and without discipline, children will grow up in a world that they are not prepared for. With no discipline, anti-social teenagers will emerge. And remember, the parent is the boss.
There are many other ways in which to teach a child that something is wrong without causing them to become scared of you or even hate you. Such abuse may have mental and psychological effects on a child. If parents can smack them, this sends out the message that the kids can do it back. If an adult hit another adult, there could be serious penalties, why is it ok if parents do it to their child. This infers that adults are more important than children. Looking at statistics, there are more vandalists around; this can be related to the fact that the government keeps lowering the allowance for smacks.
Smacking children is a bad example to everyone. Whose opinion we should really ask for is those which do not get a say. Those abused, those hit and very strongly doubt that, as violence is an act that is meant to be to dislike, they will want to be hit. After all, we only feel pain when the body realises that there is a force that might negatively affect us.
In my opinion, I think that smacking is right, so long as it does no permanent damage. My mother says that she used to hit my older sisters but, thankfully, she decided that it was wrong before I was born. Therefore my strongest argument for smacking is that my sisters turned out, as much as I hate to admit, to be very supportive of me and helped me in everything I have done.
