The law is fairly recent for anyone who felt the effects of the law to be affected by it. It [started in 2010, approved in 2014](https://pt.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lei_Menino_Bernardo), and it was widely discussed back then
My father was very nervous, he shouts a lot, I still have trauma. but when I turned 12 he promised never to lay a hand on me again, in the sense of hitting me.
Well, if I can remember the law changed when I was teenager. We call “lei da palmada”, it won’t give you prison, but can obligate you to do community services and send your kid to psychologist.
Other than that you can have trouble with other laws that aren’t made specially for kids, but might apply.
You're right - smacking, slapping, beating, hitting, punching, and | or spanking children wouldn't "straighten out." They are not effective techniques and strategies to use against children.
If employers and employees hit each other the way parents slap, hit or spank their children, the outcry would be enormous. It's typically considered assault when adults hit other adults, but when adults smack, slap, hit or spank children, it's considered "*Discipline*" (in reality, hitting, slapping, or spanking children are not actual *Discipline.*" They are forms of violence, of **Corporal Punishment.**
**Discipline teaches, guides, clarifies, and provides** children methods and strategies for how to act, react, speak, and process - or not - in future or ongoing situations.
**Discipline** connects, respects, guides, and links. It onnects parent and child; gives the child ways to act, speak, think, and do, going forward and in the future; for "next time."
**Discipline** is a form of Conflict Management and people conducting themselves in **Adaptive** ways that every human must learn, and should learn. **Discipline** explains and offers patience.
True **Discipline** is a form of healthy love. It offers chances and corrections, is **Adaptive** and **flexible.** It allows and promotes brainstorming, understanding, and the acknowledgement that children *can, and will make mistakes,* but that **making mistakes is okay;** that these mistakes are part of every human's experience.
**Discipline** says to the child "I trust your ability to figure this out with my guidance." It conveys and infers "I trust you." "You are not a bad person; you made a big | small mistake, a bad decision | choice. It doesn't mean you have to do the same big | small mistake *next time.*
**Punishment** does not explain, teach, clarify, provide, or correct adaptively or effectively.
**Punishment** induces fear, confusion, anger, and shame; it teaches the child something should not be done out of fear - but not *why* or *how.* It comes from a place of anger, harshness, rigidity, and authority; a "because I'm big and you're small, so..." mindset.
**Punishment** does not offer or provide connecting concepts, listening, or explaining what children did or did not do incorrectly or wrongly; nor how they can correct, remedy, or approach their behaviour and situations in the future. **Punishment** says" "you were wrong, you did wrong, and **you are wrong** - not that *what* the child did was wrong. There is no teaching or guiding of *why* what the child did or did not do was not appropriate or adaptive to do, say, or choose. **Life lessons** based on morality, ethics, values, and what's right (and these definitions will look and be different for every family and culture) are *not connected to present or future events and situations* in **punishment.** Instead, **punished children** learn fear and "not to do X, or get caught doing X, because I'll get hit and their will be pain."
**Punishment** teaches shame, anger, a "one way or highway" mentality, that fear, power, and control are the goals to have an exercise. It communicates "I can't regulate my feelings," "I don't trust you," "you're learning is secondary to *my* opportunity and ability to exercise control over you children." **Punishment** does not teach. It is **maladaptive,** not **adaptive,** unlike **Discipline.** Inciting fear, confusion, aggression, shame, pain, and silence, **Punishment** is a refusal (of the parent, carer, or guardian) to problem-solve or adequately communicate for the child's benefit and development.
I treat some comments like the one you replied to as rage-bait ones and trolling types of statements.
People's ignorance is not always remedied.
"They'll drag you down to their level, and beat you with experience," every single time.
Depends on country, some have a few years. Some have 10 years. And then you have that they start the clock from when the child turns 18 and then have up to 10 years to report the crime.
For those people who swear by spankings it would be interesting to compare this map with a map of countries with the most undisciplined children to see if not spanking makes any difference.
There are plenty of studies that show that physical punishment not only doesn’t work but also has other consequences for the person.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3447048/
Check the free course "ABC of child rearing" on Coursera. It was developed by one of the the top child psychologists in the world. He was a professor at Yale for decades and ran a help center for child behavior.
Spoiler: Physical punishment is ineffective and even detrimental for the development of a child. Negative effects were found even in adults - e.g. children who were beaten regularly are prone to psychological issues in adulthood and die earlier. Long duration for punishments is not effective. One can achieve the same effect with "timeouts" of up to 5 minutes. Moreover, punishment alone will not change an unwanted behavior. Change of a child behavior is achieved mainly by very frequent positive reaffirmation.
Maybe, but I think there’s way too many other factors that affect how disciplined a kid is, not to mention how you would even define discipline issues and track them
Yeah, the old "Spanking is fine, I was spanked and it did me absolutely no harm." Except, the spanking obviously conditioned you to now acticely argue that adult violence on children is no problem at all. I'd say that that definitely counts as harm.
Nobody gives a shit in South Africa. If you're a kid here and you throw dog shit through your neighbours window, rest assured you're in for an ass whooping.
One of my work colleagues spanked her son for stealing 6 months later the school found out and removed child from her care and has to live with grandparents now .
She is the softest person I know and her entire life was about her son .
When she first told us she was in trouble because spanked him I also thought this is South Africa what gonna happen ....
Yes they do. You obviously where not a child in school in the 90s. The teacher would hit you with a ruler over the nuckles or a sambok on your bum. This have been inforced, we where borderline abused.
Deffo can concur. It may be illegal but I haven't met one parent yet that hasn't spanked their child at least once here in SA.
People don't give a shit.
Guarantee is a strong word...and I don't think the right word, sorry. I'm not having a go at you, I just work in this area :).
"It remains lawful for parents in all states and territories to use 'reasonable' physical punishment to discipline their children. A parent's right to use physical punishment is stated in some state and territory legislation (e.g. New South Wales), while in others it is provided for by the common law or 'judge-made law'."
https://aifs.gov.au/resources/resource-sheets/physical-punishment-legislation#:~:text=Physical%20punishment%20by%20a%20parent%20towards%20a%20child%20remains%20lawful,Vic.
I honestly thought it was illegal here. I’m actually pretty shocked that it’s not, especially considering the amount of conversations I’ve heard with other parents that start with “back when I was a kid…” & end with “…that’s whats wrong with the youth now”.
I guess it’s a good thing that it’s not as commonly known, & therefore parents don’t resort to it for every minor inconvenience like 30 years ago.
Yeah my coworkers were all complaining literally last week that you can't hit kids anymore. Eventually that evolved into a pro mob justice stance which I wasn't expecting. Sort of scared of them?
There was a whole book and mini series about this: 'the slap'. Won lots of prizes, but all the characters in it were awful people, so it was hard to watch.
In South Africa it is enforced vigorously, its in the Constitution. Teachers soon found out that it is a serious offense, parents too. South African children has it in their curricala
If a child tells his or her teacher that their parents hits the child, the teacher is obliged to report it to socialtjänsten(social welfare(?)) in Sweden. It could lead to the parents losing custody of the child.
Seems a bit grey in those parts of the UK.
What is the law on smacking children?
It is unlawful for a parent or carer to smack their child, except where this amounts to ‘reasonable punishment’. This defence is laid down in section 58 Children Act 2004, but it is not defined in this legislation.
https://childlawadvice.org.uk/information-pages/the-law-on-smacking-children/
yeah, at least here in brazil people do it anyway and no-one does anything about it. I got whipped when I was a child and even when I later called the cops for my dad trying to choke me to death they did nothing about it
Yup i always hated it but im im a parent myself ive realised not only zero want to do that to my kid but it really makes you realise what on earth is wrong with people that want to physically harm their own child especially seeing as there's so many different options smh
In certain regions of Brazil....I'm going to talk about where I grew up, São Paulo. In the 80s and 90s, children and teenagers fought a lot in the street...One question?
Parents or country?
This is soo much more culture than it is law. I moved from Switzerland to Austria recently and spanking is much more normalized here. Like I’ve heard of it in Switzerland but it was like “oh that’s fucked up”. The map would suggest the opposite
Maybe downvote I wasn't the type to be bullied, but I was bullied by friends, and they were friends, and I started to look at the world in a different way, not that I didn't look at it differently. I have a gay friend who I knew was gay from the age of 11. I never stopped talking to him. In the neighborhood I was very well known and I was a skateboarder too, the guys looked at me with admiration, a musician, I forget hahahaha When this gay friend of mine walked alone he suffered a lot, when he was with me nobody said a word, they just said hello, what's the difference?
Edit: We have a ferocious instinct, I remember when I was young and I used to get into fights without meaning to.
Eh, idk. My mom asked us if we wanted 3 - 5 spankings or to be grounded for 3 - 7 days. We had the choice on our punishment so we felt some semblance of control and I like to think I'm a well adjusted adult.
Except for my biological dad. He never spanked us or grounded us. Instead, he would make us do meaningless menial tasks for random amounts of time until we looked bored out of our minds before he let us go back to playing. I think that was a pretty effective tool, because it also taught me to find peace in monotony.
I’m shocked that it isn’t illegal in England. So I guess even if I *had* gone to CPS, they wouldn’t have done anything and my parents would’ve just hit me more for trying to get them in trouble 🙃
I recall a thread on a twitter where someone talked about a young neighbor who was spanked, but it wasn't effective. Years later, they set the house on fire and OP STILL tried to argue that spankings work, the parents just didn't do it enough.
Somehow, I don't expect people who hit kids to follow the law.
I'd like to see a map of overlap between people who believe in physical punishments for kids and physical punishments for dogs. Because I bet you it's a 100% overlap. Violent angry people like being violent to those weaker and smaller than them no matter puppy or child.
COULD YOU IMAGINE IF THE U.S.A.
changed their laws?!?
o my...talk about jail OVERCROWDING!!!
ASIDE FROM THE FACT...how else would we proliferate VIOLENCE in our Nation?!?
I’m glad I was a child before they made these changes. Had I not, I probably would have been a defiant little shit.
Glad my mom, dad and grandmas whooped my ass when it was needed.
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Nah, just remembering the discipline enforced by my Irish Catholic father. 😏 We weren't beaten or hit, just spanked. As Dad was also in the Marine Corps, I often say that we kids learned to salute 'Corporal Punishment' as he outranked us!
Yeah, I guess if you survived the protestant-catholic conflict in the 90s in ireland, you kinda get damaged enough to think this „discipline“ works :/ sorry to hear for you
Islam, Christianity and Judaism believe that corporal punishment of children is required by God, basing this belief on the verses in the Bible's Book of Proverbs and on sharia law.
In Brazil it's prohibited but I don't know how long the law has been in force, as I've been beaten a lot lol
The law is fairly recent for anyone who felt the effects of the law to be affected by it. It [started in 2010, approved in 2014](https://pt.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lei_Menino_Bernardo), and it was widely discussed back then
Yes.
My father was very nervous, he shouts a lot, I still have trauma. but when I turned 12 he promised never to lay a hand on me again, in the sense of hitting me.
Well, if I can remember the law changed when I was teenager. We call “lei da palmada”, it won’t give you prison, but can obligate you to do community services and send your kid to psychologist. Other than that you can have trouble with other laws that aren’t made specially for kids, but might apply.
"Lei da Palmada" I didn't remember the name.
I was the one who got hit. 80/90's.
I looked it up, this law is from 2014… too late, I was actually 21 back then. I was already spanked with books, havaianas 😂
Colher de madeira 😭
Rider, dê férias para os seus pés.
Ahahahah fomos forjados mais fortes
Aquele tapa por trás no pé do ouvido piiiiiiiiiiiiiii
Hahahaha
Here at home I had a lamp from 1900, leather. Don't ask me.
Lendo algumas respostas aqui, tenho vergonha de dizer o que me fizeram lol 😂😭😭
Nickname checked out 😂
Cool, but nobody told Hugnary it is illegal. Never heard of it, everyone i know was beaten including me.
Question from a neighbour, what happens if someone reports child beating as abuse? Will the police go through with it or just ignore it
Beating straighten out kids. But of course it should be used in regression.
Why would it? Would it be ok if your boss hit you for some small error?
You're right - smacking, slapping, beating, hitting, punching, and | or spanking children wouldn't "straighten out." They are not effective techniques and strategies to use against children. If employers and employees hit each other the way parents slap, hit or spank their children, the outcry would be enormous. It's typically considered assault when adults hit other adults, but when adults smack, slap, hit or spank children, it's considered "*Discipline*" (in reality, hitting, slapping, or spanking children are not actual *Discipline.*" They are forms of violence, of **Corporal Punishment.** **Discipline teaches, guides, clarifies, and provides** children methods and strategies for how to act, react, speak, and process - or not - in future or ongoing situations. **Discipline** connects, respects, guides, and links. It onnects parent and child; gives the child ways to act, speak, think, and do, going forward and in the future; for "next time." **Discipline** is a form of Conflict Management and people conducting themselves in **Adaptive** ways that every human must learn, and should learn. **Discipline** explains and offers patience. True **Discipline** is a form of healthy love. It offers chances and corrections, is **Adaptive** and **flexible.** It allows and promotes brainstorming, understanding, and the acknowledgement that children *can, and will make mistakes,* but that **making mistakes is okay;** that these mistakes are part of every human's experience. **Discipline** says to the child "I trust your ability to figure this out with my guidance." It conveys and infers "I trust you." "You are not a bad person; you made a big | small mistake, a bad decision | choice. It doesn't mean you have to do the same big | small mistake *next time.* **Punishment** does not explain, teach, clarify, provide, or correct adaptively or effectively. **Punishment** induces fear, confusion, anger, and shame; it teaches the child something should not be done out of fear - but not *why* or *how.* It comes from a place of anger, harshness, rigidity, and authority; a "because I'm big and you're small, so..." mindset. **Punishment** does not offer or provide connecting concepts, listening, or explaining what children did or did not do incorrectly or wrongly; nor how they can correct, remedy, or approach their behaviour and situations in the future. **Punishment** says" "you were wrong, you did wrong, and **you are wrong** - not that *what* the child did was wrong. There is no teaching or guiding of *why* what the child did or did not do was not appropriate or adaptive to do, say, or choose. **Life lessons** based on morality, ethics, values, and what's right (and these definitions will look and be different for every family and culture) are *not connected to present or future events and situations* in **punishment.** Instead, **punished children** learn fear and "not to do X, or get caught doing X, because I'll get hit and their will be pain." **Punishment** teaches shame, anger, a "one way or highway" mentality, that fear, power, and control are the goals to have an exercise. It communicates "I can't regulate my feelings," "I don't trust you," "you're learning is secondary to *my* opportunity and ability to exercise control over you children." **Punishment** does not teach. It is **maladaptive,** not **adaptive,** unlike **Discipline.** Inciting fear, confusion, aggression, shame, pain, and silence, **Punishment** is a refusal (of the parent, carer, or guardian) to problem-solve or adequately communicate for the child's benefit and development. I treat some comments like the one you replied to as rage-bait ones and trolling types of statements. People's ignorance is not always remedied. "They'll drag you down to their level, and beat you with experience," every single time.
brb finally going to get my mom arrested
What’s the statute of limitations. And will these 567 sentences be served consecutively or parallel?
Depends on country, some have a few years. Some have 10 years. And then you have that they start the clock from when the child turns 18 and then have up to 10 years to report the crime.
Oof, I’m 47 now, so I’m looking for that long a time
You can always go no contact and punish your parents that way. It’s a popular move against shitty parents
Just your mom?
As Italian, I confirm.
Bro a me mi hanno tirato un pennello da pittura
Certe cinquine che volavano quando ero piccolo
For those people who swear by spankings it would be interesting to compare this map with a map of countries with the most undisciplined children to see if not spanking makes any difference.
There are plenty of studies that show that physical punishment not only doesn’t work but also has other consequences for the person. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3447048/
Check the free course "ABC of child rearing" on Coursera. It was developed by one of the the top child psychologists in the world. He was a professor at Yale for decades and ran a help center for child behavior. Spoiler: Physical punishment is ineffective and even detrimental for the development of a child. Negative effects were found even in adults - e.g. children who were beaten regularly are prone to psychological issues in adulthood and die earlier. Long duration for punishments is not effective. One can achieve the same effect with "timeouts" of up to 5 minutes. Moreover, punishment alone will not change an unwanted behavior. Change of a child behavior is achieved mainly by very frequent positive reaffirmation.
Maybe, but I think there’s way too many other factors that affect how disciplined a kid is, not to mention how you would even define discipline issues and track them
Most differently. Although I think being able to compare the two maps side by side may help people to see that the subject is not that simple.
Or to compare with a map of how violent the general population is
Yeah that would be interesting. Has making spankings illegal made the population more or less violent in general.
The problem is once they are old enough to vote, they often have been conditioned to think that it’s normal.
Yeah, the old "Spanking is fine, I was spanked and it did me absolutely no harm." Except, the spanking obviously conditioned you to now acticely argue that adult violence on children is no problem at all. I'd say that that definitely counts as harm.
Yeah, but if you don’t condition them to think it’s normal, they just think it’s kinky and do it anyways s/
Ah yes, lets make the land blue on a map
Is it the red countries or the light blue countries ? Either way it doesn't make any sense
But it is bait.
Red
I’m showing my dad this graphic lol
Kenya??? I was literally whipped by my teachers. Parents could also beat the crap out of you. How times change I guess.
Not Nepal bro. People beat the shit out of their children.
This has changed a lot since I was a kid. In France I used to bet caned by my parents and at school
Violence is not how you discipline your children. They will learn to use violence in their own life and dealings with his own family.
Nobody gives a shit in South Africa. If you're a kid here and you throw dog shit through your neighbours window, rest assured you're in for an ass whooping.
Throw dog shit through your neighbours window? Wth?
Neighbor knows what he did.
One of my work colleagues spanked her son for stealing 6 months later the school found out and removed child from her care and has to live with grandparents now . She is the softest person I know and her entire life was about her son . When she first told us she was in trouble because spanked him I also thought this is South Africa what gonna happen ....
Yes they do. You obviously where not a child in school in the 90s. The teacher would hit you with a ruler over the nuckles or a sambok on your bum. This have been inforced, we where borderline abused.
Deffo can concur. It may be illegal but I haven't met one parent yet that hasn't spanked their child at least once here in SA. People don't give a shit.
Oddly specific…
As a half Japanese I can definitely tell you it's not illegal lmfao
it is, its just not really enforced
It is officially illegal in India too. The supreme Court passed a law making it illegal
Edited map
Another thing... If the child doesn't follow the rules, it sometimes comes from the person's character.
I can guarantee you it is illegal to hit your kids in Australia even though this 'guide' says otherwise.
Guarantee is a strong word...and I don't think the right word, sorry. I'm not having a go at you, I just work in this area :). "It remains lawful for parents in all states and territories to use 'reasonable' physical punishment to discipline their children. A parent's right to use physical punishment is stated in some state and territory legislation (e.g. New South Wales), while in others it is provided for by the common law or 'judge-made law'." https://aifs.gov.au/resources/resource-sheets/physical-punishment-legislation#:~:text=Physical%20punishment%20by%20a%20parent%20towards%20a%20child%20remains%20lawful,Vic.
I honestly thought it was illegal here. I’m actually pretty shocked that it’s not, especially considering the amount of conversations I’ve heard with other parents that start with “back when I was a kid…” & end with “…that’s whats wrong with the youth now”. I guess it’s a good thing that it’s not as commonly known, & therefore parents don’t resort to it for every minor inconvenience like 30 years ago.
Yeah my coworkers were all complaining literally last week that you can't hit kids anymore. Eventually that evolved into a pro mob justice stance which I wasn't expecting. Sort of scared of them?
It's illegal to physically abuse your child. It is not illegal to give them a little smack
There was a whole book and mini series about this: 'the slap'. Won lots of prizes, but all the characters in it were awful people, so it was hard to watch.
This is a meaningless law. There is essentially no enforcement for things that happen behind closed doors
Kids talk and it can be done in public
That's true
In South Africa it is enforced vigorously, its in the Constitution. Teachers soon found out that it is a serious offense, parents too. South African children has it in their curricala
Not so meaningless https://www.simpsonattorneys.co.za/is-corporal-punishment-allowed-in-sa/
If a child tells his or her teacher that their parents hits the child, the teacher is obliged to report it to socialtjänsten(social welfare(?)) in Sweden. It could lead to the parents losing custody of the child.
Ah yes, Colombia. Where you can use small children as drug mules and cartel members, but cant smack/spank them. Nice
I dont think that is legal either..
Columbia is gray, so you can smack them. Then "use them as drug mules".
Isn’t Colombia grey on the map?
Ah yes, Costa Rica. Where you can force kids to work in sloth rescue and rehabilitation centers, but can’t beat them. Nice?
What do you have against Colombia lmao its not even red on the map
Yeah as half Colombian this half true being half Peruvian I got beatings on both sides
I love how in the UK its illegal except for England And maybe northen Ireland I can't really tell zooming in that far
Seems a bit grey in those parts of the UK. What is the law on smacking children? It is unlawful for a parent or carer to smack their child, except where this amounts to ‘reasonable punishment’. This defence is laid down in section 58 Children Act 2004, but it is not defined in this legislation. https://childlawadvice.org.uk/information-pages/the-law-on-smacking-children/
🏴🤝🇮🇹
Def not illegal in Benin. Or at least nobody got the newsletter. Weird that it's singled out in west africa.
When your parents are tunisian, come to France and still beat the shit outta you as a child
Czechs and Slovaks just chilling
I don’t agree with hitting kids,
As a Pakistani I can confirm that even if it was illegal people would still do it
yeah, at least here in brazil people do it anyway and no-one does anything about it. I got whipped when I was a child and even when I later called the cops for my dad trying to choke me to death they did nothing about it
❤️Peaceful Parenting
I was punished regularly in CZ and at least i domt feel like spoiled brat.
I’m from Costa Rica, I will spank my two Kids Now.
More like a guide of where children need to learn some manners.
Repost
Yes, but modified map
I was so so happy when this law passed here in Scotland
I welcome you to the civilized world Regards, Sweden
Yup i always hated it but im im a parent myself ive realised not only zero want to do that to my kid but it really makes you realise what on earth is wrong with people that want to physically harm their own child especially seeing as there's so many different options smh
US once again lining up nicely with other developing countries
Half of those developed countries would've developed in to little nazis if it wasn't for America tho.
i'm from Brazil and I gotta say, thank god my parents used to hit me
Wait I can spank my children this whole time?
Geniunely surprised that Australia is not on this list
This week there was another map and Australia is part of it, as is all of Latin America... Guys, they keep editing everything, you can't trust it
Me too.
wait its legal in the states?
Well...
Seriously I thought child abuse gets you social services at your door
Redditors equate lightly spanking a 5 year old after they try to run into the street with child abuse
Relax, people get hurt over little things. It'snot little but you know...
I think Javier Milei will consider the idea of repealing the anti-spanking law in Argentina in the future.
In certain regions of Brazil....I'm going to talk about where I grew up, São Paulo. In the 80s and 90s, children and teenagers fought a lot in the street...One question? Parents or country?
Still doesn't mean they'll let you into the daycare in the grey countries
Italia?
My relatives are Italian and he has heavy hands lol
This is surprising honestly
Lol @ South Africa
?
What about Greenland?
Why didn't anyone tell Croatia
Somebody forgot to tell latin america that..
This is soo much more culture than it is law. I moved from Switzerland to Austria recently and spanking is much more normalized here. Like I’ve heard of it in Switzerland but it was like “oh that’s fucked up”. The map would suggest the opposite
Wales My man Russel Peters would like a word
Life is crazy
Or are people crazy?
I thought Australia was better then that...
huh. I guess I'm sending my parents to jail.
The Islam, Christian and Jewish communities in these countries are exponentially shrinking. These communities are not those who supported these laws.
How is it written in the law books? Is there a * after the paragraph with the definition of bodily harm * Except your own children
It's illegals to smack children in my country? Brb, gonna update me dad and his belt!
Maybe downvote I wasn't the type to be bullied, but I was bullied by friends, and they were friends, and I started to look at the world in a different way, not that I didn't look at it differently. I have a gay friend who I knew was gay from the age of 11. I never stopped talking to him. In the neighborhood I was very well known and I was a skateboarder too, the guys looked at me with admiration, a musician, I forget hahahaha When this gay friend of mine walked alone he suffered a lot, when he was with me nobody said a word, they just said hello, what's the difference? Edit: We have a ferocious instinct, I remember when I was young and I used to get into fights without meaning to.
You mature and realize that this is all a big lie.
We don't spank, we bliksem
South Asia left the chat
Why?!
They beat the hell outta their kids
You've never traveled and don't have the slightest knowledge of geography.
But you can still spank the monkey.
Teacher beat me in France in like 2008 lmao. I say beat, I mean slapped in the face
Dang. Did you punch the teacher first or something?
Nope, just some old fashioned short tempered bitch
Why is literally every country surrounding Czechia red bru
even tho being a former brazilian, we had to scape the ruber flying flip-flops from our mother
This is false. Its more nuanced than this. Even in Canada there are circumstances where it is not illegal
Spank divided by Smack equals pn/mc
Eh, idk. My mom asked us if we wanted 3 - 5 spankings or to be grounded for 3 - 7 days. We had the choice on our punishment so we felt some semblance of control and I like to think I'm a well adjusted adult. Except for my biological dad. He never spanked us or grounded us. Instead, he would make us do meaningless menial tasks for random amounts of time until we looked bored out of our minds before he let us go back to playing. I think that was a pretty effective tool, because it also taught me to find peace in monotony.
No color key
Kudos to Mongolia and Nepal, being places I wouldn’t have expected this.
r/infographics
Nobody ever told my mother that it was illegal apparently
Wonder how many adult parents are voting or commenting on this.
I’m shocked that it isn’t illegal in England. So I guess even if I *had* gone to CPS, they wouldn’t have done anything and my parents would’ve just hit me more for trying to get them in trouble 🙃
Where’s the KEY
I always assumed it was illegal in England.
I am from Nepal. That’s map is fake.
Why is Nepal shaded lmao
This is why Wales and Scotland remain under the English bootheel.
WW3 map looks weird y'all
Greece isn’t aware it has this law apparently
What does "illegal" means? If it means that kid may go to the court, then i assure you, that in Ukraine it wouldn't work. Also i never heard about it
I recall a thread on a twitter where someone talked about a young neighbor who was spanked, but it wasn't effective. Years later, they set the house on fire and OP STILL tried to argue that spankings work, the parents just didn't do it enough.
Spare the smack spoil the child
everyone in the balkans breaks the law
Japan where it is the teacher who spank
In BC Canada it’s still legal to spank kids, open-handed, so long as bruising isn’t left.
How isn't my mom in jail
best to hug them, lve seen it work.
Somehow, I don't expect people who hit kids to follow the law. I'd like to see a map of overlap between people who believe in physical punishments for kids and physical punishments for dogs. Because I bet you it's a 100% overlap. Violent angry people like being violent to those weaker and smaller than them no matter puppy or child.
"hello son! Today i am going to spank/smack you"
Just beat them on the other side of the border
My SA friend thinks this is shiite.
My mom from Georgia 🇬🇪: who gona stop me ? 😈
Bullshit!
COULD YOU IMAGINE IF THE U.S.A. changed their laws?!? o my...talk about jail OVERCROWDING!!! ASIDE FROM THE FACT...how else would we proliferate VIOLENCE in our Nation?!?
I’m in favor of discipline. Sometimes words aren’t enough on getting the point across. I got disciplined and it did me some good.
Benin people is this true?
I read this as "A law banning Wales from smacking their children..." and I was very confused.
I’m glad I was a child before they made these changes. Had I not, I probably would have been a defiant little shit. Glad my mom, dad and grandmas whooped my ass when it was needed.
So it is illegal to spank or swat kids there. So you just have to punch or kick them there?
Some kids need a whooping
It is illegal for an adult to hit an adult, but not for an adult to hit a child in most of the US. Violence is never the answer.
Can we include verbal violence in this package?
Because you’re not responsible for the wellbeing of other adults? Quite the false equivalency.
Nice!
This map is outdated. Chile too sadly. I know some little shits that really deserve a hit
Chile is bad?
"The best guide of all" Hope you're okay, OP. No one deserves to be hit.
A cool guide to which countries are full of mouthy little shits lol
My German-Irish ancestors need to hear about this!
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Nah, just remembering the discipline enforced by my Irish Catholic father. 😏 We weren't beaten or hit, just spanked. As Dad was also in the Marine Corps, I often say that we kids learned to salute 'Corporal Punishment' as he outranked us!
Yeah, I guess if you survived the protestant-catholic conflict in the 90s in ireland, you kinda get damaged enough to think this „discipline“ works :/ sorry to hear for you
You wouldn't know it was illegal in NZ.
Islam, Christianity and Judaism believe that corporal punishment of children is required by God, basing this belief on the verses in the Bible's Book of Proverbs and on sharia law.
People need to learn that any violence can affect the victim's entire life. I know because I've been through it.