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