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Smacking a child should be illegal

I firmly believe that the smacking of children should be banned by law. For me, there is no real debate in this matter. Many parents abuse the right to smack their children, which can lead to severe consequences. Children grow up copying and learning from their parents from a young age. If parents drink and smoke, their children may want to copy them. If parents smack, their children will think that it is acceptable to be violent and will be more likely to smack their own children in the future. Surely the main consideration in this case is that, if parents choose to smack their children they are damaging them, not always physically but definitely psychologically. 

In everyday life, violence doesn't need to be used to control children's behaviour. Most parents say that they use smacking as a way of controlling their children when they are disobedient. I believe smacking can affect children when they become adults in two ways. They could disagree with smacking their own children because they didn't like it, or they could agree with it because they like the control and authority it gives them. 

Twenty years ago, corporal punishment was banned in schools because some teachers were abusing the right to smack children. For years, parents have been abusing this right and the Government still hasn't banned it in the home. Since Sweden banned smacking 10 years ago, child deaths have been reduced to zero. In Britain, it runs at one child death per week. 

Most children's charities point out that hitting someone who is over the age of 18 could result in the assailant being in court for abuse, but hitting a child is perfectly legal. According to the law, it is illegal to beat an animal, even if it is a mild smack on the nose. The law is clearly stating that animals have more right to safety and protection than children do and that it is fine to chastise a child, but not an animal. Can we allow this absurd situation to continue? I personally believe that it is wrong to ban any violence against animals, but not children. 

There are still many parents who believe that the smacking of children should be allowed. To conclude all I have said in my argument, how could any parent want to inflict pain on their own child? The sense of hurt that a child must feel emotionally as well as physically must be unbearable because the person who is supposed to love them unconditionally, is inflicting abuse on them instead. 

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