This whole smacking issue as presented by the media is a farce!:
1)Smacking or no smacking spanking guardians are going to do it anyway marks or no marks and only 1 case in a 1000 ever comes to court.
2) Let’s just face it smacking can never be done “satisfactorily”.
Pulling a child’s pants down is bad enough -an aggressive violent assault on its nude buttocks and connected genitalia is traumatic -end of the argument.
3)What happened to the “no implements rule?”A hairbrush does not always leave “marks”.
4)Why are “marks” the criteria anyway There is practically no difference between a tomato
red pair of buttocks hand spanked and a set with a couple of bleeding
split lines at least not in the mind of the child.
5)Why no crime of “engaging in sadistic and unnecessary chastisement for adult sexual gratification only?
6)Anyway it’s not possible to smack in any meaningful sense of the word without “Marks” as even a slight red glow is a “Mark” surely?
7)So it is more like gentle patting is the max.