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**__ Smacking should be legal in New Zealand. __**  Currently in New Zealand there is a rule that no one is allowed to smack their children. Smacking a child is not child abuse it is just a form of discipline. New Zealand police are investigating every reported incident of a child been hit. This is not necessary when they could be investigating other more important things like murder or crime. Every child needs good discipline so that they don’t go out of control and the only good way is by a small smack if they are naughty. Sue Bradford brought the anti-smacking law into New Zealand but I disagree with her because there is no other way to discipline, so I think smacking should be legal in New Zealand.

What makes a smack so bad? Smacking is a way of discipline that actually works on nearly all children. Super Nanny might be able to make some children sit on a naughty corner but it definitely doesn’t work on all children. What are they going to learn from that? There is nothing to learn from that and it just agitates the children even more.

Also Parents are responsible for their own children and their behaviour and they should be allowed to choose whether they smack their children or not. It is not child abuse it is by hand and there is definitely nothing wrong with it.

Smacking is a much faster way of dealing with a naughty child. You don’t have to spend hours and hours try to get them to calm down on the ‘naughty corner’. Trying to get your child to apologise for what they have done is actually wrong because of course they are going to say sorry because they are scared. They don’t actually mean it and they will probably just go and do it again.

My last point is that child abuse is not going to be prevented by banning the smacking of children, it might even increase it because there is no other way of disciplining a child so the parents might feel the need to abuse their child.

In conclusion I most definitely disagree with Sue Bradford’s law for the anti-smacking law. Parents should be allowed to smack their children as long as it is by hand. I don’t think the police need to investigate every little smack that happens because there is nothing harmful to the child. It’s not going to change the society in any way. Child abuse is not going to be changed just by banning smacking because they are not at all alike. Parents should have their own right and own ways of disciplining their child, so hopefully I have persuaded you enough to agree with me that Smacking should be allowed in New Zealand.



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