Poll: Is smacking to discipline a child acceptable?

  • 10/10/2018

A Picton man has just been discharged without conviction after smacking his 4 year old on the bottom last year. The child had no injuries.

The 'anti smacking bill’ was passed in May, 2007. It removes from the Crimes Act the statutory defence of "reasonable force" to correct a child.

Is smacking to discipline a child acceptable?

Vote in The AM Show poll below.