Does Your child belong to you or the State?
Spanking apparently is headed for another swatting in the California Legislature, as Assemblywoman Sally Lieber, D-Mountain View, has reintroduced a proposal to effectively ban such discipline, even by parents, according to the Capitol Resource Family Impact organization.
“Last session this same bill received national attention because of its assault on parents rights to discipline their children,” said Karen England, executive director with the group. “We succeeded in stopping the bill because parents were so outraged that an arrogant lawmaker thinks she knows better than parents how to raise their children.”
Last year’s plan as AB755, and this year’s, AB 2943, is virtually the same, England said.
“According to AB 2943, a parent who spanks their child would be placed on probation for a minimum of four years, and would be forced to attend a ‘nonviolent parental education class’ and the child would receive a criminal court protective order ‘protecting the victim from further acts of violence or threats’ and ‘residence exclusion or stay-away conditions,’” England said.
The bill itself dumps parental discipline into categories previously reserve for child abuse.
While I would never approve of any child discipline that causes serious bodily or emotional injury, I do not believe it is a state interest to place the government between a child and parent when it comes to discipline that does not rise to the level of child abuse. Spare the rod and spoil the child, discipline a child in the ways of God (morality) and when they get old they shall not depart from those lessons, are still of value today. Yet, day after day we are witnessing the state assuming absolute control over the minds and bodies of our children, demanding they be raised according to liberal principles and few people are objecting.
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