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A smack on the bottom is not violence

Estonia's chancellor of justice Indrek Teder, who is charged with guarding the constitution and is also the children's ombudsman, has proposed a new law that clearly forbids corporal punishment of minors. The initiative has triggered a vigorous social debate. The news portal Delfi fears that this would lead to parents who reprimand an unruly child with a smack on the bottom being depicted as dangerous criminals: "Now Teder wants a law generally forbidding this punishment, even though two-thirds of parents support it and five percent actually apply it. … The state, which can't control aggressive children, wants to criminalise respectable people to demonstrate its own power. … But things have gone too far when sensible people come to equate a father who smacks a naughty child or pulls a child's hair when it uses obscene words with an antisocial person who regularly beats the living daylights out of his child (or his wife) with anything he can find at his disposal."

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