Smacking Children

Most children see smacking as any other kind of hitting and have negative feelings about their parents after being physically disciplined, according to a new report on the smacking of children. So should smacking be banned? Many childrens charities are against smacking children and have had many protests against it. One of the most famous is the NSPCC where there are many celebrity supporters such as Geri Halliwell, Carol Voderman, the Beckhams, Lulu and Elizabeth Hurley. They believe that smacking does not work and just hurts the child both mentally and physically. Last September, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that the British law on corporal punishment in the home failed to protect childrens rights, after a case where an eight-year-old boy had been beaten by his stepfather with a garden cane for three years. Sometimes smacking can cause serious harm such as scarring and bleeding, and if the blow was at the head it could cause brain damage. Out of 76 children on a report i...