Johnson, agreeing, said: “People do feel anxious about imposing discipline on their children, whether the law will support them. Or, at least, from what Labour’s apologists sometimes called “a loving smack”. The then children’s minister, Beverley Hughes, said the party would not “make smacking a crime and criminalise decent parents for a mild smack”. No one would make a similar claim for adult survivors of domestic rage or violence. Unless certain parts of the UK do, indeed, confer a very special kind of child immunity.

Source: The Guardian October 06, 2019 07:52 UTC