Canada's kid-smacking not so bad.In response to Derek Kaill's article, "Come to Canada, Smack a Kid!" (July/August 2004), Americans don't have to come to Canada. They have fewer restrictions than Canadians do, except Americans make a distinction between hitting by parents and hitting by teachers. Some states, but not all, ban corporal punishment corporal punishment, physical chastisement of an offender. At one extreme it includes the death penalty (see capital punishment), but the term usually refers to punishments like flogging, mutilation, and branding. Until c. in schools but not in the home. In either case, there is no restriction against using a weapon. So the new Canadian New Canadian Noun Canad a recent immigrant to Canada laws are a vast improvement over U.S. laws concerning children. By the way, some states also have religious exemptions to medical care, such as for parents who harm or kill their children by providing faith healing faith healing, relief or cure of bodily ills through some religious attitude on the part of the sufferer. In the Jewish and Christian traditions prayers for cures and miracles are usual; thus the apostles developed a ritual of healing (James 5. instead of medical help and aren't prosecuted for child abuse, or they face lesser charges. Lynne H. Schultz Gainesville, Florida Gainesville is the largest city and county seat of Alachua County, Florida.GR6 Gainesville is home to the University of Florida, the largest university of the State University System of Florida and the third-largest university in the United States. |
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