Poland joins countries that are prohibiting corporal punishment at homes

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Today a new Anti-Domestic Violence law went into an effect, prohibiting all form of corporal punishment at home.

So, Poland had finally joined severeal European countries where corporal punishment are einteirly prohibited both at home and school (we haven't this in school for decades, btw).



Green: Corporal punishment prohibited at home and school (yes, I wrote initially yellow out of retardness)

Blue: Prohibited at school only

Red: Not prohibited

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What does Green stand for?

He meant to say green when he said yellow.

Yes

Sorry guys

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LOL France LOL

LOL, France is just like Alabama and Oklahoma!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Corporal_punishment_in_the_United_States.svg

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I support "blue". Total bans are absurd.

You need to be a moderate hero hack on everything, including, spanking, don't you?

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I support "blue". Total bans are absurd.

You need to be a moderate hero hack on everything, including, spanking, don't you?

If that's what you want to call it, I don't Care....but I don't like the state regulating what parents can use as discipline (within reason, of course). But then again, you love state Intervention.

God, that was so Libertas.

(and talking seriously, parents can't wield an absolute power. "It's my right to discipline my chilf with a..." is sometimes horribly abused. Maybe you was lucky, in your world of dreams and illusion, to never notice nor see from a close distance abuse victims. Well, I wasn't)

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That's still no reason to ban reasonable corporal punishment. If you ban things just because they can be abused in some cases, you'd have to ban a lot more than spanking.

Parents have the right to raise their children as they see fit unless some real danger exists for them.

Point is, that with allowance, there's no real control to prevent abuse.

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If you think abusers will follow the banning laws, you're sadly mistaken, Kal. 

On the other hand, we'll have tighten enforcing of the law against abusers.

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This is really surprising because I thought Poland was ultra conservative? This must not be one of those issues in Poland.

Poland is not "ultra conservative", and surely much more liberal than many other countries in the region. And that was actually very hot issue.

It's pretty hard to explain to the foreigner why we sometimes had conservative laws, still not being a conservative society.

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I support blue. Using "spanking" as a method should not be banned, as it often corrects unruly and disrespctful behavior. Corporal punishment should be completely legal if done by a legal guardian.

Abstaining from legal issues, do you really believe "spanking" is working?

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Quite right. So do wives. Give 'em a good battering every now and again; keeps 'em in line, gives them the discipline that they need to remember to have my tea on table as soon as I get home every night.

Yes, it's nothing wrong with giving your wife a proper discipline within some limits.