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(Stuff) Interesting Over 300,000 New Zealanders sign petition for the right to smack the living crap out of their children   (stuff.co.nz) divider line 336
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kieronb 2008-02-22 01:32:35 PM  
Nice to see NZ backing away from the abyss of fascism. North America could learn a thing or two.

 
MrKraclenutz 2008-02-22 02:15:22 PM  
kieronb: North America could learn a thing or two.

Ditto. Kids need a good smackin. Did me some good.

 
klymen [TotalFark] 2008-02-22 03:36:17 PM  
It's none of government's business how I punish my kids.

 
Treygreen13 2008-02-22 06:00:10 PM  
www.stuff.co.nz

Approve.

 
terrapinwreck 2008-02-22 06:00:15 PM  
hitting children is wrong. .

 
Jument 2008-02-22 06:00:29 PM  
klymen: It's none of government's business how I punish my kids.

I dislike the nanny state but that's just not true. There is a line between punish and torture/abuse. I agree that controlled spanking is not abuse, but if you're smacking your kid around hard enough to break bones or stubbing out cigarettes on his forehead the gubmint should step in.

 
bighairyguy [TotalFark] 2008-02-22 06:00:29 PM  
I'd like to smack the crap out of their children too.

 
ChadM89 2008-02-22 06:01:35 PM  
klymen: It's none of government's business how I punish my kids.

Don't be silly, of course it is.

We as a society don't want you punishing your kids by beating them within an inch of their lives or burning them with a hot iron. There must exist a line which separates punishment from abuse and we must empower the government to enforce it.

That said, normal spanking is not abuse and should be perfectly legal.

 
DilldoBaggins 2008-02-22 06:01:42 PM  
I was not spared the rod as a child and I turned out alright

/twitches

 
LeeOfTampa 2008-02-22 06:02:05 PM  
terrapinwreck: hitting children is wrong. .

this. and lazy.

 
mybabysmomma 2008-02-22 06:02:08 PM  
What about smacking crappy parents?

 
OtitisMEDIA 2008-02-22 06:02:54 PM  
all of you Farkers just wait until your father gets home

 
ohmyvariousgods [TotalFark] 2008-02-22 06:03:02 PM  
bighairyguy: I'd like to smack the crap out of their children too.

Second.

 
Fahkinell 2008-02-22 06:03:13 PM  
Cue the farkers who are proud of having beat their child into submission in 3.. 2.. 1..

 
melaniethepanda [TotalFark] 2008-02-22 06:03:44 PM  
got a smacked bottom once when i was a kid.

after that, mom just had to give me "the look" and i behaved.

yay for spanking!

 
terrapinwreck 2008-02-22 06:03:44 PM  
mybaby : What about smacking crappy parents?

Now that I can get behind.

 
Smellvin 2008-02-22 06:03:50 PM  
ChadM89: That said, normal spanking is not abuse and should be perfectly legal.

That's what I told the judge when I got picked up for disciplining that attractive college girl for cutting me off on the freeway. :(

/Didn't work

 
tgregory 2008-02-22 06:04:10 PM  
raising children is the parents job, not government's.

if my kid is misbehaving to the point they need a smack on the rear, so be it.

 
shorynot 2008-02-22 06:04:44 PM  
Seems like alot of you farkers were burnt as children...

 
Pinner 2008-02-22 06:04:51 PM  
I tell them that if they can't settle down/knock it off/shut up, etc. I say I took one of their favorite toys away.

/drives 'em crazy trying to figure out which one
//never actually do it though
///they shut up
////farkin slashies

 
Cup_O_Jo 2008-02-22 06:05:28 PM  
SWEET BABY JESUS..
Thank God..
It is PROVEN that young children only understand the consequence of pain.

 
Jeff_from_MD 2008-02-22 06:06:03 PM  
melaniethepanda
yay for spanking!


Questionable choice of words there. Your boyfriend taught you well huh?

 
nonannystate 2008-02-22 06:06:23 PM  
Reminds me of the story of one of my best guy friends... His mom had four sons, all 6'5" or over by the time they were grown. So you can imagine, huge teenage boys, four of them. Father had left the family when the kids were little.

When they became teenagers, they started ganging up on the mom. One day, she took a frying pan out of the cupboard and whacked each of them in the head at the dinner table and said next time they got in her face, it would be the cast iron griddle. end of problems. Yeah, the gubbmit doesn't need to step in for these cases.

 
im_fkn_kreg 2008-02-22 06:06:32 PM  
www.tshirtsrfunny.com

 
Ant 2008-02-22 06:07:24 PM  
terrapinwreck: hitting children is wrong. .

Comparing a swat on the butt to child abuse is wrong too.

 
JonnyBGoode 2008-02-22 06:08:03 PM  
I got smacked a few times when I was a kid. Taught me respect. Something sorely lacking in today's generation.

 
SaintAwesome 2008-02-22 06:08:06 PM  
Spanking my kid doesn't work.
Seriously...
I have to take away his Ultraman toys.

 
Pinner 2008-02-22 06:09:13 PM  
Getting a hold of the hair, just above the ear holds their attention as well while you explain to them, slowly, why you are sick of their shiat.

 
terrapinwreck 2008-02-22 06:10:40 PM  
Ant:Comparing a swat on the butt to child abuse is wrong too.

tru. i just never had to hit/spank a child. and he aint no angel.

/often tempted...never performed.

 
eff ewe 2008-02-22 06:10:54 PM  
terrapinwreck: hitting children is wrong. .

Yeah, you could hurt your hand. Try kicking them instead.

 
DaBishop 2008-02-22 06:11:55 PM  
Well, I'd post an angry rant about kids being property, but where_is_truth kinda deflated my "get off my lawn" balloon.

/It's 5:oopm; time to stop piloting this desk and go have a beer.....who's with me?

 
Ant 2008-02-22 06:14:16 PM  
SaintAwesome: Spanking my kid doesn't work.
Seriously...
I have to take away his Ultraman toys.


Doesn't work on my 2.75 year old either, so we don't do it. Spank him and he's like "Whatever. Are you done?", but put him in time out, and you'd think he'd just been told he could never play again. It's surprisingly effective. Go figure...

 
themindiswatching 2008-02-22 06:16:31 PM  
New Zealand to have a shortage of snowflakes.

/I want snow

 
ChadM89 2008-02-22 06:16:38 PM  
DaBishop: /It's 5:oopm; time to stop piloting this desk and go have a beer.....who's with me?

No, it's a quarter after 3. But you have fun! :)

 
TripcodeMel 2008-02-22 06:16:52 PM  
FTA: It was passed 113-8..

Also FTA: The referendum would not be binding. .. Baldock said politicians should not ignore the referendum if it was passed.

Uh-huh.

 
Pinner 2008-02-22 06:17:21 PM  
DaBishop: Well, I'd post an angry rant about kids being property, but where_is_truth kinda deflated my "get off my lawn" balloon.

/It's 5:oopm; time to stop piloting this desk and go have a beer.....who's with me?


I'm two PBRs and a Weinhard's ahead of you.

 
jonescollectables 2008-02-22 06:17:26 PM  
Theres a big difference between spanking and beating your kids, a BIG difference.

 
thisispete [TotalFark] 2008-02-22 06:18:03 PM  
You were lucky. We lived for three months in a brown paper bag in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six o'clock in the morning, clean the bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down mill for fourteen hours a day week in-week out. When we got home, out Dad would thrash us to sleep with his belt!

 
dbubb 2008-02-22 06:18:23 PM  
I thought government involvement in child rearing was primarily to "reunite" crack whores and their babies....

Swatting a kid's bottom to get their attention is so far from abuse it's not funny.

Why is that family services agencies are always corrupt and incompetent? Second only to boards of ed and school administrators in the idiot parade.

 
Bagelox-99 2008-02-22 06:19:04 PM  
Seems as tho quite a few Farkers may be suffering from psychological maladjustment and blurred vision.

Here, read this.

paizo.com

 
TeddyRooseveltsMustache [TotalFark] 2008-02-22 06:19:17 PM  
Maddox is right:

theworstpageintheuniverse.com

 
Phillylou 2008-02-22 06:19:18 PM  
SaintAwesome: Spanking my kid doesn't work.
Seriously...
I have to take away his Ultraman toys.


You are one mean farker! :)

Loves UltraMan (1966)and has the DVDs

 
coprolite 2008-02-22 06:19:22 PM  
When my nephew was five, hitting him just made him bow up and dare you to do it again. Making him stand with his face in the corner for two minutes was absolute torture for him.

 
Vtimlin 2008-02-22 06:19:24 PM  
mybabysmomma: What about smacking crappy parents?

Win

 
Klivian 2008-02-22 06:19:49 PM  
All those against spanking, I suggest you go read the articles the seem to show up every few weeks about a psycho elementary school kid , and the teachers needing to call the cops to control the little crotchlings.

Children who are not disciplined wind up like those kids, and they grow up to be even worse.

Not suggesting abuse, but the "precious snowflake" deal we have going now is going to lead to big problems if it continues.

 
Aprily 2008-02-22 06:20:53 PM  
I just don't like New Zeland at all. All the news I read coming from there is just wacky. This too. But on the other hand ..maybe because of this the wackyness will go down ... we'll see.

 
fufuomelet 2008-02-22 06:20:58 PM  
I too enjoy a good spanking...

 
LoneStarJustin 2008-02-22 06:21:10 PM  
Some people hit their children when they missbehave I say why wait? I'm angry now

 
RhineStoneTaco 2008-02-22 06:21:26 PM  
jonescollectables: Theres a big difference between spanking and beating your kids, a BIG difference.

Exactly.

One is socially unacceptable and wrong.

The other is socially acceptable and wrong.

 
TeddyRooseveltsMustache [TotalFark] 2008-02-22 06:21:47 PM  
fufuomelet: I too enjoy a good spanking...

Well hello.... *slowly removes sunglasses*

 
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