PM Warns Parents About Beating Children
In recent decades, many countries have made it illegal to strike a child as a form of discipline.
Sweden was the first to do so in 1979, and since then many other countries in Europe have also followed suit, as have New Zealand and some countries in Africa and the Americas.
However, corporal punishment continues to be a primary disciplinary measure used by many parents in Jamaica even though psychologists say the act makes children more violent.
Prime Minister Andrew Holness recently urged parents to avoid the practice.
According to The Observer, while speaking at a special school opening ceremony at Seaward Primary on Monday, he explained that violence starts in the home and implored parents to stop beating their children because they are teaching them that resorting to violence is the best way to resolve conflict.
The prime minister encouraged parents to steer their children away from crime and violence.
“I believe we must grow up our children with love and teach them to respect each other and to reason things out so I appeal to you, the parents, today, let us change that little thing in our culture where we resort to violence as the first means of resolving conflict,” he said.
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