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Lawmaker drops effort to ban spanking
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| Contributor | Servo |
| Last Edited | Servo Feb 23, 2007 10:20am |
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| Category | News |
| Media | Website - Yahoo News |
| News Date | Friday, February 23, 2007 04:20:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | A Democratic lawmaker has abandoned her heavily ridiculed campaign to make spanking a crime, acknowledging that the idea would get whacked even in California's sometimes whimsical Legislature.
Instead, San Francisco Bay area Assemblywoman Sally Lieber introduced a more narrow bill on Thursday she said would help district attorneys more easily prosecute parents who cross the line from punishment into physical abuse.
Lieber is seeking to classify a laundry list of physical acts against young children, including hitting with a belt, switch or stick, as unjustifiable and grounds for prosecution, probation or a parental time-out — a class on nonviolent parenting. |
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