New SA law will make it illegal for parents to spank their children at home

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A new law is being drafted to make it illegal for parents to spank their children at home, the Sunday Times reported.

"If a husband beats a wife it's a crime, but if a parents hits a child who is helpless, it's not illegal," social development minister Bathabile Dlamini told the newspaper.

She said parents had to take responsibility and raise their children with proper values, to ensure they "don't end up killing your own children."
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You know how children in america end up murdering their parents and then video games get blamed..... ya wait for it

I thought this was already a law... or perhaps I just saw this coming. Either way, it is pretty silly. Good luck with discipline.

They seem to be very good at writing unenforceable laws...

I can understand the logic behind this. It is difficult to remove a child from an abused environment because there is no law against physical punishment of a child. Some people simply do not know where to draw the line when it comes to child discipline.

Mixed feeling about this, there should be a line but is this it?

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Originally Posted by MOnk

Mixed feeling about this, there should be a line but is this it?

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In my opinion...no.

I turned out the way I am because of being "spanked".
Kids will, as a result of this, be more ill-disciplined. In other words; telling parents how to "handle" their undisciplined children - in the own homes!

"We are the government, and we now control what you do in your homes with regards to home you discipline your kids, and how to teach them right from wrong."

This will not end well.

So we've reached the point where we punish the parent who punishes his child for stealing from mommy's purse. I thought in a civilized society we could separate punishment from assault.

What happens to those people who practice SDMR and torture sexual acts, do we define how people can have sex and declare their hobby as assault and arrest them for consensual sex?

"Spare the rod, spoil the child."

When I was growing up and I was naughty I got a good hiding. It quickly taught me not to do that again. Obviously I am not saying child abuse is okay, but there is a line somewhere and this is crossing that line as well.