Letter: Smacking children

Thursday 24 September 1998 23:02 BST

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Sir: Smacking children in anger or frustration is something we do because they can be infuriating and embarrassing beyond the capacity of any adult, because we are responsible for them and because they are smaller than us - understandable on the Clinton scale of human frailty, but assault nonetheless. Systematic corporal punishment in cold blood is a sinister practice.

JON GRAY

Bath

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