Force is either ok, or it's not ok.

UNDER WHAT AUTHORITY has Sue Bradford decided that it is ok to use force with your children in some circumstances, but not in others?

Sue Bradford's new bill says that it's ok to use force to do the following:

- Prevent harm to the child or to stop the child committing a criminal offence.

- Stop 'offensive or disruptive behaviour'.

- Perform 'the normal daily tasks incidental to good care and parenting'. It forbids the use of force 'for the purpose of correction'.

Either the child is autonomous, or it is not autonomous. Autonomy means that a person is completely in charge of himself and may make all his own decisions.

Who is Bradford to say: "you can pick up your kid and carry him kicking and screaming out of a supermarket, - but you can't smack them for this tantrum, heck no".

Let's say little Jimmy wants to jump infront of the bus. What right should his mum have to grab him, pull him back and wack him on the bottom to reinforce the stupidtity of jumping infront of the bus?

Well she's his mum, of course she should be allowed to. She's not doing it for kicks.