An analysis of child killings between 1991 and 2005 has lead mental health professionals to call for an Australian smacking ban for all parents and guardians.
What do you think? Would a smacking ban help? Tell us below...
Destiny decides who you meet in your life, but it's our heart that decides who stays in our life. - Gale, TAS
Kurt Fearnley: I was relief teaching in Blayney when I met Kurt as a young school boy. The first thing that struck me was his smile and contagious positive outlook at all times. I see nothing has changed with this outstanding Australian. Although I never saw him again, it is a testament to the power of his personality that I have not forgotten him more than 15 years later.
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my children are smacked on the bottom if they do something that is wrong and they are then told why they got a smack but it doesnt mean that i dont love them.
I am 13. As a child I use to get smacked it was never nothing serious just a tap and I think I learned a lot from that. I think it is OK if it is just a tap other than that I don't agree.
Sara
As a Child I was smacked by hand and hit with a belt almost daily. I remember the Smacking but I don’t remember what for. I found this to be humiliating and soul crushing and it took me many years to overcome personal limitations due to fear.
Now as a parent and a teacher, I
As a Child I was smacked by hand and hit with a belt almost daily. I remember the Smacking but I don’t remember what for. I found this to be humiliating and soul crushing and it took me many years to overcome personal limitations due to fear.
Now as a parent and a teacher, I