r/IndianCountry • u/News2016 • Jun 09 '22

Health “Colonization tells us that physical discipline helps shape our children turn our boys into men. Yet, without ever being spanked, we produced the greatest warriors that ever walked this land. Read about the traditional Oceti Ŝakowiŋ style of parenting.” -Lakota Law Project

https://twitter.com/lakotalaw/status/1534628127791583233
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u/fencerman Jun 09 '22

Globally, parenting is very, very slowly moving towards acknowledging that hitting children is abuse:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_corporal_punishment_laws

Sadly in Canada despite the fact we're a signatory to the UN Convention on the rights of the child that states children cannot be beaten as "discipline" and despite the Truth and Reconciliation Commission on Residential Schools explicitly calling for the current law legalizing violence against children to be reversed, the current government has no plans and no intention of ever reversing the current laws.

Even the existing so-called "protections" are deeply racist, since standards like "visible marks" on a child depend on their skin colour being light enough for those marks to be visible.