RENUA attacks proposed ban on corporal punishment

Minister Lucinda Creighton’s new political party RENUA, has attacked Minister James Reilly’s proposed total ban on child corporal punishment.

RENUA said that although striking a child ‘represents a failure of parenting,’ the fact that parents in today’s world are under ‘serious time and fiscal pressures’ means that an outright ban on all forms of corporal punishment is too extreme.