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N.B. This story is only for those interested in extreme M/M.

According to France’s Childhood Foundation, 85 percent of French parents admit to smacking their
children.

The measure, which was adopted by MPs in November, is expected to easily pass France’s upper
house of parliament despite some conservative and far-Right members warning such legislation
fostered unwanted “interference” in family life.

France’s penal code already bans violence against children.  But under a 19th-century legal loophole, allowances have until now been made for parents’ “disciplining” of children as part of “ordinary everyday violence”, or what in the UK is known as “reasonable chastisement”.

In May, a smacking ban in Scotland moved a step closer when the Jock Parliament’s equalities
committee backed the plan by five votes to two, meaning it cleared its first parliamentary hurdle in
the face of polls showing strong public opposition.

The legislation is on course to make Scotland the first part of the UK to criminalise smacking, having gained the backing of the Jock Government and an array of MSPs from all parties except the
Tories.

It would remove the defence of “reasonable chastisement” in Scots law that allows parents to use
physical punishment to admonish a child.

How long before the UK Parliament follows, as if there aren’t more pressing issues?