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Do-gooders' tiume is running out
From the Bolton Evening News, first published Friday 8th Jul 2005.
IN reply to Peter Johnston's letter against the use of corporal punishment for young louts (June 23).
It would be interesting to hear just what he thinks the appropriate punishment should be for the mindless 15-year-old morons who caused so much distress to the bereaved families in the recent Farnworth graveyard wrecking spree.
Most of the population believe a few good old-fashioned birchings would put an end to the daily frolics of happy slapping, beating up defenceless people, and mindless vandalism etc, perpetrated by a small handful of jeering out of control youths.
He is also quite wrong in his statement that other societies bring children up without physical punishment being used.
Parents in every other European country spank their children regardless of what their government has decreed. Even in Sweden, often quoted by do-gooders as a ìno spank nationî, according to a survey last year, it was revealed 64 per cent of mothers still spanked their children, regardless of the law.
Mr Johnston may have noticed recently more and more Europeans no longer take much notice of what their governments think is good for them. Perhaps at last the pendulum is swinging back, and time is running out for do-gooders.
G Granville
Lostock
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