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View full size Jerry McCrea/The Star Ledger Allison Blake, commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Children and Families, speaks at a press conference in this file photo from June 2011. An N.J. appeals court decided Tuesday that one slap constituted excessive corporal punishment if the slap leaves a handprint and bruising.
TRENTON — A slap on the face constitutes excessive corporal punishment if it's hard enough to leave a handprint and bruising, a state appeals court panel said Tuesday in a child welfare case.
The unanimous decision upholds a finding by the state Division of Youth and Family Services that a Bergen County woman abused her 8-year-old son with a single slap on Jan. 14, 2008.
"Slapping the face of an 8-year-old child with sufficient force to leave a hand imprint and cause bruising goes "beyond what is proper and reasonable," judges Victor Ashrafi and Douglas Fasciale wrote in their 16-page opinion. "The physical harm here is readily apparent and sufficient to sustain the division’s substantiation of abuse."
The woman, identified in court papers as E.P., slapped her son on the left cheek when he answered with a shrug her question about why he kicked his 5-year-old sister, according to the decision.
The following day, the mother, who is a nurse, applied a cold washcloth to his face before he went to school. School officials there observed a red mark on his cheek and called DYFS, the ruling said. The bruise on his face resembled three fingerprints, court papers said.
The mother, who was pregnant with her third child at the time, acknowledged smacking her son but insisted it was not a form of corporal punishment, a position an administrative law judge also took. DYFS overruled the administrative law judge, prompting the appeal.
"It doesn’t make a lot of sense to me," Walter Schreyer, the woman’s attorney, said of the ruling. "I think it’s wrong."
He said her options include asking the state Supreme Court to take up the issue or ask the full appellate court to reconsider the case using new DYFS guidelines for determining abuse.
"It was just an isolated incident. It wasn’t intentional," Schreyer said.
The boy was not taken from his parents but the woman faces having her name placed on a child abuse registry. The appellate division has addressed corporal punishment in several opinions, some of which sided with the parent and some that found in favor of DYFS.
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As a child, I was spanked. Not often, mind you. But I certainly got a whoopin’ on my buttocks for major offenses.
My parents never made idle threats at me. If I got a warning about my behavior, I knew immediately to knock it off. Or else.
What comes to mind to this day, and I couldn’t have been more than 4 years old, but I still remember it clearly as we were at a restaurant. I was not behaving correctly, and my parents gave me the warning to stop it or else I’d be taken out to the car for a spanking.
Well, I didn’t listen, and out we went to our station wagon where I received a big spanking.
Some say spankings do more harm than good. There is certainly evidence of that, yet I turned out just fine.
I’ve spanked each of my daughters on the rarest of occasions, only when they were much smaller and their behavior warranted it. These days, they’re big enough to get consequences like losing their tablets or having to do extra chores .
I remember when my eldest decided to throw a tantrum in the middle of a shopping mall while we were in China. She was about 2 years old, and we wound up spanking her there while Chinese people gathered around and stared. They were not upset with our disciplinary action, merely looking at the interracial couple struggling with a child who wouldn’t behave.
However, a mother beating a child is a very serious thing, though I don’t liken spankings to beatings. However, the effects of slapping a child in the face are far more severe than a whack to the tush with your bare hand.
Hitting a child in the face may seem extreme, but I’m not a mom to teens, not yet anyway. I’ve heard from friends of mine with surly teenagers, though, and talking to them made me wonder, is it legal to slap a child in the face?
Unbelievably, you are allowed to slap your child, though it depends on where you are in the world. A case got a lot of attention with a 14-year-old girl who called 911 because her mom slapped her. Officers later determined the mother was disciplining her child, and no charges were filed.
I don’t seek to judge people here, but I think it’s probably a good idea to avoid hitting a child in the face at all costs. The younger your child, the more damage you could do, and surely, there are other ways to discipline your kids.
I guess I view spankings differently because your rear end is naturally cushioned. The face has less padding, and with eyes that can become damaged, noses broken, and teeth knocked out, slapping poses more risk to serious injury than a spanking.
Slapping a child in the face is known as corporal punishment. There is no state in the US where it is completely illegal to hit your child. But the jury seems to be out on whether or not it’s abusive.
It really depends on who you ask, though most experts agree that physical aggression toward a child that involves hitting, shaking, pinching, kicking, throwing, slapping, or burning are abusive behaviors. Spanking and paddling are looked at differently because they are considered reasonable and are less likely to cause damage.
Whether you agree with it or not, though, is another matter. If you think spanking and slapping are awful ways to discipline, the answer is simple…don’t do them!
Again, I’d like to reference the 14-year-old girl who called the police on her mom because her mom slapped her. The mom didn’t get charged or taken downtown or anything.
I suppose if the police came and determined you were an abusive witch that was consistently hitting your child in the face, they might cart you away, but no laws are saying you MUST go straight to jail for slapping your child, at least here in the US.
Now, here is why I’d hesitate to slap either of my children (or anyone else’s child, for that matter) in the face. Slapping or smacking the face can cause brain development problems, so says a study by Harvard in an article from the Daily Mail .
In the study, the researchers looked into corporal punishment and smacking in relation to 147 children. They discovered that it could affect brain development in a very similar way to more severe violent acts.
Perhaps your teenager seems sturdy enough, but young children are at an even greater risk for damages. And let’s not forget the permanent damages you could do if you burst a blood vessel in their eye, break their nose, or knock out teeth with your slap.
Again, it depends on where you are in the world when it comes to corporal punishment. It is banned in 43 out of 196 countries. You are not legally permitted to slap your child in the face for most of Europe and South America.
The US is not among the 43 countries that ban corporal punishment. It’s not the only country, though, as the UK, Canada, Australia, and South Africa don’t have any laws on the books about it (at the time of writing this).
Bans against slapping and corporal punishment have been proposed in some US states such as California and Massachusetts, but nothing has been cemented. It’s hard because there is a thin line between corporal punishment and physical abuse. Generally though, for the 50 states, most can agree that it is acceptable for a parent or legal guardian to issue corporal punishment with a spank or an open-handed slap.
Using closed fits or hitting your child across the face with an object is a different matter and varies by state. Oklahoma allows you to use a switch to whip your child only with regular force.
Except for New South Wales, Victoria, and Tasmania, Australia generally allows parents to hit their kids and with implements! Teachers too! They can do so as long as it doesn’t leave a mark with blood or bruises.
Now here’s where things get dicey…it is permitted in many states for your school to smack your child. Corporal punishment is still used to discipline children in school in some parts of the US.
An article by NPR mentions surveys where roughly 75% said it’s OK to spank a child. Though, to be fair, it says nothing of slapping. The majority of this is about paddling or spanking. Corporal punishment at school is legal in public schools in 19 US states. You should look at your state’s laws and make sure you understand them.
Again, I’m from the spanking era. I had a happy childhood though I remember the few times I was spanked. I was amply warned what the punishment would be and chose to ignore it.
My parents never slapped me, though, and I’ll let you know if my girls ever get mouthy enough to get an open-handed slap when they are teenagers.
For now, though, there are reasons to abstain from smacking your child, so please weigh in on them.
I always talk about how kids model our behavior. If you want your child to do something, let them see you doing it. Unfortunately, this means anything negative you do will be copied, thus the case for not hitting your children because they will become hitters too.
Teenagers surely know, but what about your toddler? Your toddler’s mental development isn’t all the way there yet. So unless the punishment befits the crime, you might want to try another way with your little ones.
We’ve got a whole generation of new adults with no idea how to resolve disagreements or politely listen when someone has a differing opinion. Our kids need us to show the way to practical problem-solving. This way, they’re less likely to repeat the bad behavior.
I’m not talking about that one spanking here and there. I’m talking about a constant corporal punishment-based way of discipline. When this is what you do for every offense, your child becomes fearful of you and how you will hurt them.
Again, if your child does one awful thing like I did here and there and gets a spanking, it’s not likely to cause problems. But if this is the norm for you, it could make them hold anger and frustration inside. This will erupt years down the road, in the teens or early adulthood.
If you let your own anger get the best of you, you can damage the spinal column when spanking. And I’ve already mentioned how slapping a child in the face can cause other physical damages.
But hitting your child sends that message. They may then pick on younger kids in the same way and find intimidation tactics to work in their favor rather than logically thinking and talking things out.
If you’ve spanked your child and now feeling guilty, learn more about the other ways to discipline her .
Start now with your kids and be a role model. It’s hard work; it really is. But when you make mistakes, tell them. “Mommy should’ve handled it this way instead. I’m sorry I upset you. Can you forgive me?”
And when they do bad things, we need to sit them down after they calm down and talk about expressing ourselves appropriately. My youngest still gets upset from time to time, so I have to wait until she’s calmed to show her how we could effectively express our anger.
Emotions are important, and they’re ours. Acknowledging your child that their emotions are OK is something you need to do. You do not have to accept negative behavior, but if you can turn this into a teachable moment, do it. Your child will remember that lesson always and use it when they’re struggling through something later on in life.
Leslie Berry lives with her husband and two young daughters in Los Altos, California where she loves helping other moms get comfortable with motherhood and embracing the insanity with facts peppered with laughs. She loves eating too much sushi, exercise, and jamming out on her Fender.
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Employees at the factory in China were forced to assault each other because they had been 'under-performing' all year
BIZARRE footage has emerged showing staff at a cosmetic company slapping each other in in the face because they “under-performed” all year.
The women, who all work for the Chinese company Nanchang Jinhuayuan Meiye, were made to punish each other in order to keep their jobs.
But to make the spectacle as humiliating as possible the face slapping took place on stage during their end-of-the-year gala.
With hundreds of their colleagues looking on, the dozen or so women from the sales department knelt on the stage and smacked each other across the face until their boss said they could stop.
Words written on the screen in the background read "Ruthless Team" - a mentality their firm was apparently trying to instill in them by meting out physical punishment.
An unnamed company spokesman tried to justify the incident by saying: "It was a show of team spirit."
He added: "It happened during the opening of our year-end gala, and only once.
The clip has been viewed some six million times on Chinese social media and generated thousands of comments, with some dubbing the scenes "employee abuse".
It is unclear whether the police will investigate the case.
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