Parents in Wales to be banned from smacking their children if they misbehave
PARENTS in Wales could be banned from smacking their children for misbehaving if a tweak to the law is passed.
Spokeswoman Lowri Turner said: "It is disappointing that the Welsh Government has decided to press on with this unnecessary piece of legislation that will do nothing to protect children, but will criminalise loving parents. The legal defence has been used in law since 1860 and is currently available in England and Wales for parents or adults acting in loco parentis against charges of common assault.
Viv Laing, head of policy at NSPCC Cymru, said: "It's wrong that children in Wales have less protection from assault and that a legal defence which does not exist when an adult is hit can be used to justify striking a child.
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