Thanks for those kind words We are unique :)

Thankfully, those with views that smacking kids in any situation is ok, are in the minority.

If not A then B

Is the argument of others

I agree it's crap

"A proper reading of Australian law says that smacking a child has never been a legally defensible option, and this should be made explicit now.

Your opinions are fine...but for a time....now you have youth that spits in your face.......go laugh that off:)

BLUE

Fantastic.
We followed the NZ with the family provision Act and thats a nightmare if judicial interference.
One again we would end up with some judge counting fairies on a pin head while and pontificating as to what a "good and just parent" should have done.

tiny.cc/changefpa

Take it easy on the Author, she does not relate well to the real world. She has never experienced physical chastisement, so has no experience of her topic.

She is not much of a lawyer; she thinks that Blackstone’s Commentaries has been disregarded in Australia She also had the disadvantage of being assisted in her research, by Jocelyn Scutt.

I wondered why we had not heard of that particular troublemaker for a while, and it is nice to hear that she now resides overseas.

Reasonable chastisment constitutes child abuse? Get off the crack, woman, it's not doing you any favours. A staggering majority of my generation were reasonably chastised and suffered no ill effects from it. Sure, a small percentage of smacked kids will wind up as deadbeats, or mentally ill, or whatever harm it is that the author imagines stems from smacking - but so will a small percentage of the non-smacked kids. The vast majority of the smacked kids will lead normal lives, as will the non-smacked kids. Reasonable chastisement doesn't mess people up, and there is no evidence to suggest it does. Child abuse does, but that's an entirely different matter.