We must stop making light of violence towards young people, children and babies by talking about smacking.
The issue here is that young citizens have less protection under the law than adults. If one adult taps another, they might go to the police, but will probably be told off for wasting police time. If an adult hits and marks another with a belt, they would rightly get into serious trouble. Not so parents necessarily. The law is on their side.
Those who say the situation is not that bad should reflect that up to two children die every week in the UK as a result of abuse and neglect in the family home. These are usually not reported as murders in our media. Yet we hear endless accounts of the rare cases of murder of children by strangers.
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