CORPORAL PUNISHMENT.
DISCUSSION ON SPANKING. PRACTISED MILLION YEARS AGO. (Australian & N.Z. Cable Assn.) LONDON, October 2G. When the desirability and usefulness of spanking was being' discussed by leading psychologists, Dr. Leonard Darwin recalled that children were spanked a million years ago, and mothers had been saying "Don't" and enforcing the command by making small boys tingle on a soft, safe place since man became man. If each generation has become slightly more docile what a little horror the primitive child must have been. Dr. Hadfleld, lecturer in psychology at King's College, expressed the opinion that the child often welcomes a spanking as the only means of getting him out of a condition of sulking. He did not advocate corporal punishment, but it was often a short and QffecLive way of righting a moral wrong-. It was not smacking which matters, but the way the child is smacked. Meanwhile a Wiilcsden magistrate faced a concrete problem. He granted the application of a girl of eighteen a summons against her fattier for spanking her, saying: "With the new vote for girls in'prospect 18 is too old for a slapping. You can summono your iaLue%-"*
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Waikato Times, Volume 102, Issue 17241, 28 October 1927, Page 7
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