Smacking ban - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Sun, 25 Feb 2018 20:43:41 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg Smacking ban - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Scottish Catholic church opposes smacking ban https://cathnews.co.nz/2018/02/26/scottish-catholic-church-opposes-smacking-ban/ Mon, 26 Feb 2018 06:51:28 +0000 https://cathnews.co.nz/?p=104358 The Catholic church in Scotland's opposition to a smacking ban has been met with anger by children's rights campaigners. Plans to outlaw the physical punishment of children would "criminalise parents", one of the church's top officials is quoted as saying. He went on to say "it is not the role of the state to interfere" Read more

Scottish Catholic church opposes smacking ban... Read more]]> The Catholic church in Scotland's opposition to a smacking ban has been met with anger by children's rights campaigners.

Plans to outlaw the physical punishment of children would "criminalise parents", one of the church's top officials is quoted as saying.

He went on to say "it is not the role of the state to interfere" in parenting, apart from in "the most exceptional circumstances". Read more

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