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Originally Posted by Shaun
I confess with no sense of bitterness or anger towards my mother, that she did hit me if I did something (very) wrong, and I do stand by the fact that it helps. I never had any bruises or psychological damage from it and I think penalising parents for it because of some extreme cases in the media is absurd.
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I agree 100% with this.
I was smacked as a child. It taught me to listen to my parents. I'm not emotionally scarred over it, it did me no harm at all. Nowadays parents are looked down on for smacking their kids, and Im told (?) its against the law. Pathetic.
How can people be expected to get unruly kids to listen to them when they arent allowed to discipline them?
(However the 'kid; in this case was 18. We dont know how he was brought up or anything. Could be that he was the perfect child until he hit 17 or something and got in with the wrong crowd or something. To lay the blame on the parents for the action of an adult is ****ing ridiculous tbh. Just thought I would add this bit incase it came across that I was blaming bad parenting for riots etc
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