New Zealand disciplinarian disappointed

See Anti-smacking bill becomes law, and Sue Reid: Smacking laws were never about the real issue of child abuse. Sue Reid is a researcher and writer for Family First NZ.

I was never involved in the debate on this issue, except casually in the office. I was surprised, though, by the vehemence with which some Christians insisted on what they saw as their God-given right, indeed obligation, to hit/smack/spank their children. See Biblical passages concerning spanking.

(The above cartoon is from the Manawatu Standard of June 2, 2009.)