Majority do not want this ban

“Do parents have the right to spank their children? It is a controversial issue, and while a Bay Area lawmaker wants it addressed in Sacramento — a majority of those surveyed for a new CBS 5 poll expressed opposition to a spanking ban.

In California, it’s currently against the law for anyone but parents to spank a child. A proposed new law would make it illegal for them, too, if the child is 3 years old or younger.

Assemblywoman Sally Lieber (D-Mountain View) wants the practice of swatting a child on the behind outlawed and is in the process of drafting a bill to do so.”

I wonder what Assemblywoman Sally thinks about Abortion.
To my way of thinking this ban is further evidence of the current insanity in our society. Parents in California can murder their own babies in the womb right up until the moment that child is born.
But if discipline is administered….whoa baby, you are NOT allowed to touch that child, you are a child abuser, you must be investigated…..you are a BAD PARENT!!!
Now, Paul and I as attachment parenting enthusiasts, do not believe in spanking as a form of punishment.
However each of our children at one point or another seemed to require a spank to get a certain message at a certain time in their lives.
For example, the first time I spanked Ben (and I have only spanked him twice), he was going through a terrible biting phase where he would bite his brothers any chance he got.
One week he was on a biting rampage, and he was not getting the message that it was a bad thing to do. He bit Jeff so hard one day that he bled, and I had finally had enough, and walloped his little butt really hard. He just looked at me like “what are you doing Mom?”, then he burst into tears. It ripped my heart out, but you know what???
He stopped biting.

He was about 2 and 1/2 at the time, and if that California ban had been in place here in Colorado, in the eyes of the law, I would have been a BAD parent and deserving of punishment under the law.
We don’t need a bunch of lefty abortion advocates telling those of us who have chosen to give birth to and nurture our children HOW to raise our families.
And it has been my limited experience that it is in fact those women who have aborted away their own babies who are constantly on the lookout for evidence of child abuse in other families.
Jenny Hatch