When smacking goes too far
"Smack Free Week is a catchphrase designed to encourage everyone to reflect on issues around family violence," says Mrs Pat Seymour, member of the International Year of the Family. "It may be violence towards children when discipline goes too far, or one partner to the other - we're not just focusing on children with the choice of that slogan.
"One of the aims of the IYF Committee is to provoke parents to look at alternative methods of encouraging acceptable behaviour in their children without resorting to violence," says Mrs Seymour. It is recognised that when smacking leads to other forms of violence, cycles of violence are set in motion and children, particularly male children, often become violent
adults because they endured violence as children. Research shows that physical discipline is often negative and often aggravated by issues such as unemployment, unwanted or unplanned pregnancies and alcohol and drug abuse within families. Smack Free Week runs from 26 August to 1 September
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Ruapehu Bulletin, Volume 12, Issue 551, 30 August 1994, Page 18
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