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Ed Thomas - OneNewsNow
4/12/2008 12:05:00 PM
4/12/2008 12:05:00 PM
The recycling craze in California has made its way into legislation that, again, seeks to dictate to and punish parents who choose to discipline their children by spanking them.
The pro-family lobby Capitol Resource Family Impact says the new version of a recycled bill promoting a "spanking ban" from last year's session of the California legislature would place any parent who spanks his or her child on four-years minimum probation and force the parent to attend a "non-violent parental education class."
AB 2943, introduced by Assemblywoman Sally Lieber, would also give the child a criminal court protective order "protecting the victim from further acts of violence or threats." Capitol Resource Family Impact (CRFI) says it is essentially identical to last year's AB 755, the highly-publicized measure that drew enough national attention for it to be defeated because of the outrage of parents.
The group claims terms used in the bill to denote "physical pain or mental suffering" are ambiguous and include references to a stick, rod, switch, belt and other items (an electrical cord, extension cord, broom, and shoe) that they do not think most parents would use.
A news release from CRFI says parents were angered enough last year that a lawmaker without any children thinks she knows better than parents how to raise their children, and the lobby group suspects that a similar effect can take place this session if voters are informed.
AB 2943 should be appearing on the Assembly Public Safety Committee agenda in the next few weeks.
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I'm not posting this to debate the right or wrong issues of spanking a child, I am posting this because once again, rights of American's are being taken away. (Or trying to be taken away).
If this spanking bill returns and actually passes this year, what will be next? If you let your child outside to play in 50 degree weather without a hat for a few minutes will the cops come drag you to jail for putting them at risk for a cold?
I am all for common sense with parenting. There are things I think are right and things I think are wrong, however, I am not in a place to tell everyone how to raise their child nor do I know how their child responds to different types of parenting. Nor is the government in a place to dictate how to parent a child as long as there is no abuse going on.
There is a quote from a well known female poet,
"Diverse children have their different natures:
Some are like flesh which nothing
but salt will keep from putrefaction,
some again like tender fruits that are best
preserved with sugar.
Those parents are wise that can
fit their nurture according to their nature."
Some are like flesh which nothing
but salt will keep from putrefaction,
some again like tender fruits that are best
preserved with sugar.
Those parents are wise that can
fit their nurture according to their nature."
Ann Bradstreet