Significant Quote:
Section 59 of the Crimes Act 1961 currently permits parents to administer moderate corporal punishment to correct their children’s misbehaviour. Various groups contend that corporal punishment should be abolished. It is, they charge, ineffective, if not harmful. They invoke the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child in support. Rex Ahdar and James Allan argue that the abolitionists’ case is decidedly weak. The arguments for banning corporal punishment are philosophically suspect, linguistically strained and not supported by the rather limited research evidence. The authors conclude that the present law on parental smacking should remain.
*Faculty of Law, University of Otago.
re. Taking Smacking Seriously: The Case for Retaining the Legality of Parental Smacking in New Zealand
– Rex Ahdar & James Allan*
(Quote taken from this website – http://nzlawreview.auckland.ac.nz/01part1.html)
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