It is OK to complain and to talk to someone and get help.

Is hitting your own child illegal. This leaves parents who practice other forms of disciplinary beatings. Spanking or paddling isnt considered abuse as long. After all it is legal to hit a child in all fifty US.

States and the District of Columbia. A crime to smack your own child by MATTHEW HICKLEY Daily Mail Smacking children under three is set to be outlawed it emerged yesterday. As you can see it is deemed acceptable to smack your child without using excessive force.

New laws will also make it illegal for parents to hit. Pretty soon you will be giving yourself permission to hit your child for even the slightest infraction because you will have become addicted to that rush of relief you get from hitting someone. So on March 19 the Cabinet submitted a bill to the Diet Japans national parliament that would make it illegal for parents to enact corporal punishment on their children.

But is smacking your kids even legal. States differ widely about what precisely is allowed. It is never okay for an adult to sexually abuse a child provide a child with illegal drugs or to burn or choke a child.

You do not have to put up with child abuse. Hitting a child in a way which causes wounding actual bodily harm grievous bodily harm or child cruelty are all illegal. Many parents would agree that severely beating your child is not only immoral but also illegal but it can be difficult to separate illegal beatings from state-sanctioned spankings.

Whereas some parents find hitting a child no matter how softly you do it absolutely deplorable. Many families strongly believe in spanking as a means of punishment for example. Child abuse is against the law.