{"id":1212,"date":"2001-09-18T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2001-09-18T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2001\/09\/18\/2001-09-18-children-s-rights-advocates-want-century-old-law-to-be-abolished\/"},"modified":"2001-09-18T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2001-09-18T12:00:00","slug":"2001-09-18-children-s-rights-advocates-want-century-old-law-to-be-abolished","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2001\/09\/18\/2001-09-18-children-s-rights-advocates-want-century-old-law-to-be-abolished\/","title":{"rendered":"Children&#8217;s Rights Advocates Want Century-Old Law to be Abolished"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Canadian Press<\/P><br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p>OTTAWA, CANADA, September 10, 2001: Canada may soon be coerced into joining the ranks with eleven other nations of the world where spanking of children is considered to be a criminal act. In the Ontario Court of Appeal, Paul Schabas, a lawyer representing the Canadian Foundation for Children, Youth and the Law, has advocated that Section 43 of the criminal code be abolished. Quoting the article this section, &#8220;grants parents, teachers and guardians permission to physically discipline children in the name of correcting behavior.&#8221; Over a year ago in July of 2000, Justice David McComb&#8217;s decision to uphold this 100-year-old law sparked controversy among children&#8217;s rights advocates. Citing examples where parents who abused their children were not punished because of this law, Schabas appealed to the three-panel judge to carefully weigh the evidence before making a decision. However, at this point in time, the Ontario government is upholding the original decision made by David McCombs and is arguing that, &#8220;allowing limited corporal punishment doesn&#8217;t hurt children and balances the societal interest in sustaining the family unit with the charter right of the child.&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Canadian Press OTTAWA, CANADA, September 10, 2001: Canada may soon be coerced into joining the ranks with eleven other,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}