Significats de reasonable chastisement en anglès

In some households, there is nothing reasonable about reasonable chastisement.

However, for parents or child carers reasonable chastisement of children was tolerated, and has remained an option.

However, common law holds that a parent may "inflict moderate and reasonable chastisement" on a child.

Seemingly normal parents and older adults were subjected to spankings and ' reasonable chastisement' for the entirity of their childhood.

However, the society regretted that the Act would still permit parents to hit children in the name of " reasonable chastisement".

The common-law defence of " reasonable chastisement" was no longer in line with the Constitution, according to the High Court judge.

Dr Reilly is seeking to remove the defence of " reasonable chastisement", which applies to parents or child carers, from common law.

Ministers have concluded they do not need to change the law which allows parents to use " reasonable chastisement" in disciplining their youngsters.

Some 15 years ago, legislation allowing parents to use force against their children was repealed but a common law defence of reasonable chastisement was retained.

The reports called for an end to the " reasonable chastisement" defence which, they said, was often used in court to defend violence against children.

Barnardos said the punishment of children within the home was currently permitted in Ireland by the existence of the common law defence " reasonable chastisement".

The other is an amendment to existing laws to restrict the circumstances in which parents can plead a defence of " reasonable chastisement" of their children.

It suggests that one may be psychologically unhealthy if one has been brought up by loving parents who administered the occasional, well-placed so-called " reasonable chastisement".