Big Brother goes on spanking binge: Swatting little Johnny on the bottom to make sure he doesn’t try again to put a fork in an electrical socket soon could make mom or dad a criminal subject to the penalties of child-abuse laws in Delaware.
And an international family rights organization says it not only opposes the idea, it will be working with state organizations to try to defeat the plan.
At issue is Delaware’s Senate Bill 234, which has been approved by the Senate and now is working its way through the House.
“Senate Bill 234, sponsored by Senate Majority Leader Patricia Blevins (District 7), creates a definition of the term ‘physical injury’ in the child abuse and neglect laws to include ‘pain,’” according to a new report from the Home School Legal Defense Association.
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