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UK Government to provide Child-Beating Courses
In response to the newly adopted Lords' amendment on smacking the Blair administration yesterday announced that it will this week launch a national program of evening classes to enable parents to “beat properly.”
Lord Lester's amendment to a bill originally intended to ban child beating, allows British parents to hit their children as long as they don't do it too hard. The light-to-medium "loving tap" is a natural and legitimate part of the disciplinary process it says.
The new amendment though, has left British parents confused and wondering just how hard they are allowed to hit.
“As with all laws, parents want to know how far they are allowed to go.” Jennifer Steel of the Face Slappers Union told BIGfib.
“If the speed limit says 40, everyone wants to drive at 40. If the maximum allowable beating is say 40kg per square foot, then parents are going to want to beat their children at 40kg per square foot.”
In response to such doubts and to clear up the legal minefield left by the Lords’ amendment, Tony Blair yesterday promised a national program to train parents.
The courses will include use of a British Standard Smack-Bottometer, which measures the force administered during bottom smacking, redness cards to enable parents to judge pain thresholds during face slapping, and score-quotas providing hard and fast guidelines to how hard and often different parts of the body should be beaten on children of different ages.
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