…but only for a moment, as another California bill is introduced which attempts to narrow the scope of the line between what some may seem has a harmless swat on the behind and more serious abuse. What follows is the first few paragraphs of the article:
- A Democratic lawmaker on Thursday abandoned her heavily ridiculed campaign to make spanking a crime, acknowledging that the idea would get whacked even in California’s sometimes whimsical Legislature.
Instead, San Francisco Bay area Assemblywoman Sally Lieber introduced a more narrow bill she said would help district attorneys more easily prosecute parents who cross the line from punishment into physical abuse.
She is seeking to classify a laundry list of physical acts against young children, including hitting with a belt, switch or stick, as unjustifiable and grounds for prosecution, probation or a parental time-out - a class on nonviolent parenting.
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Read the rest of the Associated Press article here.
Read the bill, AB755, at: http://democrats.assembly.ca.gov/members/a22
2 responses so far ↓
mcewen // Feb 23, 2007 at 3:40 pm
I’m not particularly surprised. My understanding is that this was introduced to use sparingly in difficult situations where there was a loop-hole. Enforcement was always going to be the pivot.
Shasta // Aug 11, 2007 at 10:23 pm
Hopefully Sally Lieber will introduce another bill that will ban corporal punishment completely for children of all ages. This bill is long overdue as children,in this state as well as in all the other states, have been abused for far too long in the name of “legalized discipline”. There is nothing right about spanking a child. Ever.
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