Outlaw Spanking to Cut Child Abuse
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Dana Parsons says in his column, “Latest Casualty Spurs Troops in War Against Child Abuse” (Sept. 19), that what happened to that 10-year-old “is but another grim reminder that adults continue doing horrible things to children.”
So why is it that so many parents are appalled at the idea of having an anti-spanking and anti-humiliation law similar to the ones they now have in five other countries?
As long as we tell parents that they have the right to hit their children, there will always be some parents who will lose their temper and do extreme damage.
Anyway I look at it, when an adult parent hits a child of any age it is assault and battery. We have laws to protect adults from assault and battery, why not for our children?
I would like to encourage the new umbrella group, Orange County Partnership for Children, to lobby our politicians to revise the present law, which allows parents to hit their children by using language like “age appropriate spanking.” Language like this only opens the door for criminal abuse.
BENNY WASSERMAN
La Palma
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