Australia’s Children’s Commissioner says laws must be repealed following new world-first research into adolescent violence. | By Wendy Tuohy wtuohy
National Children’s Commissioner Anne Hollonds has called for smacking to be made illegal as data shows children who have seen and experienced physical abuse are more than nine times more likely to use violence in the home.
In March, Wales became the 64th country to ban smacking or slapping children, repealing Victorian-era laws permitting “reasonable punishment”,Similar century-old laws permitting reasonable physical punishment of children still exist in Australia, but Hollonds says they must be repealed to protect children and also reduce Australia’s “pandemic of family violence”.
, said young people who had been smacked as children told researchers “they tend to hit family members, especially siblings and mothers, as a way of conflict resolution”. “It’s massive, not a freak event at the sidelines of parenting; these are young people whose childhoods who have been experienced very, very recently,” said Higgins, director of the Institute of Child Protection Studies at Australian Catholic University.
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