It's time to be reasonable

Nursery World, 11 March 2004

By Peter Newell, co-ordinator of Children Are Unbeatable!, an alliance of more than 350 organisations that campaigns for law reform on the physical punishment of children Equal protection is every child's right. Yet, even though children are among the weakest and most vulnerable people in our society, the law allowing 'reasonable chastisement' means that they have less protection from being hit in the home than adults.

By Peter Newell, co-ordinator of Children Are Unbeatable!, an alliance of more than 350 organisations that campaigns for law reform on the physical punishment of children Equal protection is every child's right. Yet, even...

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