A Nova Scotia man received probation for spanking his 11-year old daughter with a belt. Supreme Court of Canada recently upheld a parent's right to spank a child with "reasonable force," but this case apparently amounted to assault.
What's your opinion? Are you a spanker? Former spankee? Belt user? Hand user? Child abuser?
Kind of reminds me of the story about the man in Germany who spanked his cranky son in a grocery store, only to have a German woman in front of him turn and say, "In Germany we don't spank our children," to which he replied, "Oh yeah? Well, in England we don't gas our Jews!"
Oh, boy.
Edited, Thu Mar 4 14:17:27 2004 by Tare