Reply #53: Once again USA shows how it is stuck in the past

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Now tell me this. Are European children more unruly than American kids? More violent? Maybe the Europeans knows something we don't!


"In the name of children's rights, nations across Europe pass - or consider - laws to limit spanking.

Whenever Louise Sylwander is in England, and sees a mother smacking her naughty child, she is shocked.

In Sweden, where Ms. Sylwander is the government's ombudsman for children, "people who spank their children are considered very odd or very mean," she says.

Indeed, they are outlaws. Spanking children, whether at school or in the home, has been banned in Sweden since 1979. Seven European nations have passed similar laws since then, and more are following suit as children's rights win wider recognition.

"Not long ago men were allowed to hit their servants, their wives, and their children," Sylwander points out. They no longer hit their servants or their wives she hopes, and it's time to stop hitting their children.

The trend has even reached Britain, the last country in Europe to ban corporal punishment in schools, where the practice was outlawed only last year - 216 years after Poland passed such a law. (In the United States, 27 states forbid the use of physical punishment in schools, but none have prohibited parents from spanking their children.)"

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