Kids Rights and Obligations

Every child or teen has the right NOT TO BE HIT at home by parents or care givers.  However, once you claim such a right, you have the obligation not to hit other kids or teens or anyone else for the rest of your life.  There is never any excuse or a reason to use physical violence (and smacking is low level violence) against a child.  Parents who resort to smacking or spanking do so because they do not possess other parenting skills.  Fortunately, many organisations of value both online and in local offices offer training and support for parens to learn parenting skills that abolish the need for them to smack or hit kids or teens in any other way.  The best organisations to seek advice from are Government organisations as these staff are not permitted to offer anything other than parenting advice and may not use religion or culture as an excuse to permit parents who hit to continue in their set ways.