South Africa has proposed a bill to enact legislation explicitly prohibiting all corporal punishment of children, including in the home setting.
If passed this bill would bring the number of states worldwide prohibiting all coporal punishment of children, including in the home setting to nineteen.
The states include: Sweden (1979), Finland (1983), Norway (1987), Austria (1989), Cyprus (1994), Denmark (1997), Latvia (1998), Croatia (1999), Bulgaria (2000), Germany (2000), Iceland (2003), Romania (2004), Ukraine (2004) Hungary (2005), Greece (2007).
Australia (2007).
In the United States corporal punishment of children in school is legal in twenty-two states, and "reasonable" corporal punishment of children by their parents/caretakers is legal in every state except Minnesota (Bitensky, 1998).
Prohibition of corporal punishment in family day care, group homes/institutions, child care centers, and family foster care varies according to state laws (EPOCH-USA, 1999b).
The twenty-two states include: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Wyoming.
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laws and cultural values are unambiguous concerning adults who physically hit or verbally threaten adults.
Such behavior is recognized as criminal, and we hold the perpetrators accountable.
Why then when so much is at stake for society, do we accept the physical attack of children? The answer is not complicated.
We cannot have empathy toward children until we can honestly acknowledge the mistreatment from our own childhood experiences and examine the shortcomings of our own parents.
To the extent we feel compelled to defend our parents and guard their secrets, we will do the same for others.
We will condone corporal punishment and look the other way.
By continually insisting that we "turned out okay," we are reassuring ourselves and diverting our attention from deeply hidden unpleasant memories.
Bill bans corporal punishment By David Spett The Mercury, May 30, 2007 ________________________________________ South Africa The National Council of Provinces passed a Bill on Tuesday [May 29, 2007] that includes a ban on the corporal punishment of children, and abolishes the defence [sic] of reasonable chastisement.
The move was welcomed by children's rights activists, who have lobbied for the tightening of the corporal punishment provision in the Children's Amendment Bill.
"The Bill is trying to provide children with the same protection that adults have against violence," said Sam Waterhouse, Advocacy Manager of Resources Aimed at the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect.
The amendment will now go back to the National Assembly for approval, before the Bill can be signed into law.
Lucy Jamieson, of the Children's Institute of the University of Cape Town, said the amendment ensured that parents no longer had a defence [sic] if they beat their children.
Besides banning violence against children by parents and at care centres [sic] and shelters, the Bill mandates that violators be sent to "an early intervention service", such as a parenting programme[sic].
If passed this bill would bring the number of states worldwide prohibiting all coporal punishment of children, including in the home setting to nineteen.
The states include: Sweden (1979), Finland (1983), Norway (1987), Austria (1989), Cyprus (1994), Denmark (1997), Latvia (1998), Croatia (1999), Bulgaria (2000), Germany (2000), Iceland (2003), Romania (2004), Ukraine (2004) Hungary (2005), Greece (2007).
Australia (2007).
In the United States corporal punishment of children in school is legal in twenty-two states, and "reasonable" corporal punishment of children by their parents/caretakers is legal in every state except Minnesota (Bitensky, 1998).
Prohibition of corporal punishment in family day care, group homes/institutions, child care centers, and family foster care varies according to state laws (EPOCH-USA, 1999b).
The twenty-two states include: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Wyoming.
U.
S.
laws and cultural values are unambiguous concerning adults who physically hit or verbally threaten adults.
Such behavior is recognized as criminal, and we hold the perpetrators accountable.
Why then when so much is at stake for society, do we accept the physical attack of children? The answer is not complicated.
We cannot have empathy toward children until we can honestly acknowledge the mistreatment from our own childhood experiences and examine the shortcomings of our own parents.
To the extent we feel compelled to defend our parents and guard their secrets, we will do the same for others.
We will condone corporal punishment and look the other way.
By continually insisting that we "turned out okay," we are reassuring ourselves and diverting our attention from deeply hidden unpleasant memories.
Bill bans corporal punishment By David Spett The Mercury, May 30, 2007 ________________________________________ South Africa The National Council of Provinces passed a Bill on Tuesday [May 29, 2007] that includes a ban on the corporal punishment of children, and abolishes the defence [sic] of reasonable chastisement.
The move was welcomed by children's rights activists, who have lobbied for the tightening of the corporal punishment provision in the Children's Amendment Bill.
"The Bill is trying to provide children with the same protection that adults have against violence," said Sam Waterhouse, Advocacy Manager of Resources Aimed at the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect.
The amendment will now go back to the National Assembly for approval, before the Bill can be signed into law.
Lucy Jamieson, of the Children's Institute of the University of Cape Town, said the amendment ensured that parents no longer had a defence [sic] if they beat their children.
Besides banning violence against children by parents and at care centres [sic] and shelters, the Bill mandates that violators be sent to "an early intervention service", such as a parenting programme[sic].
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