Massachusetts lawmakers want to ban corporal punishment for children even at home. What do you think? Good or bad?

Massachusetts lawmakers want to ban corporal punishment for children even at home. What do you think? Good or bad?

Asked by AgentOrange 49 months ago Similar questions: Massachusetts lawmakers ban corporal punishment children home Science.

Similar questions: Massachusetts lawmakers ban corporal punishment children home.

Too intrusive. I was never a spanker because my child was well-behaved and never required a spanking. However, I am wholly aware that, on some children, a swat on the behind has more corrective impact than anything else.

I am also aware that many modern folks consider this 'beating. ' I heartily disagree. We have too much government and too many laws, particularly those that intrude on our bodies and our parental autonomy.

The state of Massachusetts should abandon this wrongheaded move.

I don't agree You can't tell me how to discipline my children in my own home. If they think I'm doing something wrong, then they can do it the right way themselves. I'll pack my kids up, and send them to the lawmakers.

Just had a heated debate here at work about that today, so I'm still a little worked up about it. It gets me how the few people that abuse their kids make people assume that everyone abuses their kids. Children need discipline and boundries and I see nothing wrong with spanking your kids on the butt..

You have got to be kidding! Haven't they learned anything yet? That'd be like throwing gas on a Fire!

Haven’t our Law Makers figured it out yet? Why do we have so many out of control kids running around? Why do we have such a problem with gang violence with kids?

When did the problem first start getting to be a serious problem? It was when a group of people decided that it was wrong to discipline the kids in school with a swat on there little fanny when they needed it. It was when somehow people got the idea that any discipline like that was abuse, Just because they had parents that did get abusive with them.

Just because a few people abuse and misuse something doesn’t mean that it’s wrong or bad in the first place. Just because a few parents that have there own anger problems and self control problems and take it out on the kids to the point of abuse doesn’t mean that every parent does. Beside the point that making a law like that would be against our rights of free choice and invade the privacy of our own home.

Passing a law like this would not only be taking away another one of our freedoms it would open our personal privacy of our homes to control and invasion by our law makers. If our law makers take away the right of a parent to discipline their kids at home it will just make the problem even worse! It’s hard enough as it is to discipline the kids.

Becoming a Stepfather to three kids that were already half grown it was a big problem for me. When trying the more "passive" discipline of trying to get the thirteen year old boy to sit at the desk like his mother wanted him to do so that he could write a number of times " I will not call my little brother a fag". I was suddenly faced with three cops bursting through the front door and being accused of child abuse.

Some how, before I was aware of and drawn into the confrontation between the kids and there mother the thirteen year old had used the phone to call 911 and say he was being abused. Even though it was obvious that I wasn’t abusing the kid when the cops came charging through the front door it still caused a lot of problems. The cops thought that it gave them the right to invade our home and search through everything, looking for what I don’t know.It put our whole family under watch by child services and it was added to my record that I was accused, but not charged, with child abuse.

When are the law makers, and people in general, going to wake up and realize doing away with the "Swat on the Butt when needed", was a bad idea? All through history parents fallowed the rule, "spare the rod and spoil the child". That has been a good general rule of life for thousands of years.

It has taught kids to respect there elders, self control, and self discipline. Look at what it has done in just the last thirty years or so to abandon that general rule of life. We now have kids killing kids.

Kids running wild in the streets and no way to control them, and no right to punish or discipline them any more. We have kids beating and robbing the elderly, and kids with no respect for anything. What do you think the world is going to be like when they grow up and are in charge of things?

Sources: Personal experiance and Life in General, PHD in the School of Hard Knocks .

Corporal punishment doesn't mean beatings. It can include that, but that is already physical abuse and punishable by law. Of our six children, there was one I did not dare touch in punishment.

It would have shattered him. He was adopted and came from an abusive situation. We had another adopted son for whom spankings were the ONLY thing which helped him understand we meant it when we said certain things.

The kids knew there were three things they would get spankings for: beating up a sibling (with adopted and foster kids, this was occasionally a problem with the younger boys), a manipulative lie (not "Did you take that cookie? " "No!" -- that is reflexive, defensive lying and needs to be corrected, but it's a lot different from a lie that is well thought out and planned in order to get something or manipulate someone), or, when past toddlerhood, the in your face defiant attitude that dared us, "Make me. " With toddlers, going for something like a candle, a hot stove, an electrical outlet, that they had repeatedly already been warned about and moved away from would result in a sharp slap a little below the diaper line, where they could feel it.

The shock of it was what counted -- I doubt it hurt! All that would be banned in MA. We cannot keep making laws to try to control the minority of the population at the expense of the majority.

I am not for beating kids... let the government be our protector instead of the populous be the protector of the government. Very frightening. If the government can provide everything, it can take just as much.

I don' agree with corporal punishment for the most part with kids, but let parents decide. The government is not God.

" "What is your opinion on corporal punishment (spanking)?" "corporal punishment on children.

CORPORAL PUNISHMENT ORDERED IN COURT... a justice of the peace is being sued for ordering a parent to paddle...

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.