XPost: alt.support.child-protective-services, alt.true-crime, aus.legal
XPost: misc.legal, uk.legal
From: reality@check.it
"Kelly Bert Manning" wrote in message
news:h80nbq$1f1$1@theodyn.ncf.ca...
> peterwn (peterwn@paradise.net.nz) writes:
>
>>> Would the mother or father have been charged the same had they
>>> hit their own child?
>>
>> Common law allows reasonable chastisment of children by parents and
>> those who are in loco parentis eg schoolmasters/ schoolmistresses.
>>
>> However this has been over-ridden by legislation in various common law
>> administrations. In this instance if it were the parent it would
>> depend on the state of the law in Georgia.
>
> A mother spanking her child in a Saanich, BC walmart prompted cell phone
> 911 calls from a number of shoppers, a squad car dispatch from the
> police station across the road, and an investigation by child welfare.
>
> Jurisdictions vary.
>
> A similar reaction to an earlier walmart incident ended up with no
> conviction,
> after a father had spanked his daughter for slamming a car door on her
> brother's hand while in the parking lot.
>
> Not illegal, but not something to be done impulsively in the heat of
> anger,
> or without consideration.
>
> Adults exercising restraint and exhibiting reasoned and deliberate
> behaviour choices set a good example for children, and for other adults.
>
> Somehow this senior managed to get through more than half a century
> without
> learning not to act like a child. Perhaps his parents gave him the wrong
> sort of examples.
So you should beat children to teach them that as adults they should have
the restraint to not beat children ... unless they own those children, eh?
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