Cool New Kansas Bill Would Let Everybody Spank Your Child

[JaneyVee]

Let’s say you live in Kansas and you are super duper into the idea of spanking your kid because you can’t think of any other way to address disciplinary issues or just because you are an abusive bastard. (Why choose?) And let’s say that you also wish that someone would just clarify how much spanking and bruising you could do? Well, you are in the right place, people, because Kansas is coming correct by proposing the biggest bestest slap-your-kids-around law ever. Freedom!

House Bill 2699, which was introduced by Rep. Gail Finney, exempts corporal punishment by a parent from the definitions of child abuse, endangering a child, battery and domestic battery.

Corporal punishment is defined under the bill as using one’s palm to strike the clothed buttocks of child up to ten times and using reasonable physical force to restrain the child. The bill acknowledges that this may lead to bruising.

Good thing this gives you a nice firm number. 10 strikes good, 11 strikes bad, and what’s a little bruising between friends? Better still, the bill makes sure that if you want to send a note to school along with little Johnny, his teachers can whack him too.

The bill also says that other legal guardians and step-parents of children can spank a child, and school personnel and other people can, too, if they obtain written permission from the child’s parents. Spanking may be used on children up to age 18, or older, if the child is still enrolled in high school, the bill says.

The rest: http://wonkette.com/542176/cool-new-kansas-bill-would-let-everybody-spank-your-child

[exboyfil]

1. She's a Democrat

[etherealtruth]

6. She's an ASS!

[tblue37]

13. Unfortunately, she is also a Democrat. nt

[NV Whino]

2. How about they let everybody spank the politicians.

[Submariner]

3. I assume House Bill 2699 would protect the beaten child

when the beaten child takes revenge and beats the crap out of the teacher or nun who beat them. I would hope so. I'd want that option.

[CreekDog]

10. letting parents bruise their children isn't fixing anything

do we have anything in common or is hitting kids the "fix" for our problems?

[Boom Sound 416]

11. Of course not

wasn't my most articulate response.

[muntrv]

5. I wonder how many kids will spank back at school personnel and "other people."

[Shrike47]

7. I grew up in the age of the belt. This law allows bare-handed spanking. Less than some want to do.

The problem is, children who are hit tend to hit people, which makes sense.

[angstlessk]

8. EGGZACTLY I was at a laundromat and heard a parent proclaim

after a maybe 4 year old slapped his infant sibling....the mother slapped the boy and said "I will teach you to hit your brother/sister" it was so long ago I do not remember the exact exchange..but I do remember "I will teach you to hit" and she did by hitting the child

[tblue37]

14. I once saw a young mother slapping her toddler and demanding that he "Go to sleep!"

Isn't that just a perfect way to help a child relax into blissful slumber?

(And yes, I did speak to her about it.)

[MrScorpio]

9. I think that, as of lately, we now have strong evidence...

That the State of Kansas is nothing more than a giant insane asylum, being run by its own inmates.

[rollin74]

12. here is Rep. Gail Finney's facebook page

in case you would like to leave a message

https://www.facebook.com/RepFinney