Some Soweto parents are not welcoming of the ConCourt rule on physical punishment to discipline their children
Parents where asked how they discipline their children? and how they plan on doing it after yesterdays judgment?
Parents cannot use physical punishment to discipline their children, this comes after yesterday’s Constitutional Court judgment that declared Chastisement of children illegal in South Africa.
The ConCourt ruled that the punishment of children violates the child’s right not be discriminated against on the basis of age; equal protection of the law freedom from all forms of violence and degradation; and bodily and psychological integrity.
What this means is that parents who previously punished children physically will have to look for alternative ways to discipline their children.
Soweto Urban went on the ground to get the parents to express their views concerning the judgment.
Parents where asked how they discipline their children? and how they plan on doing it after yesterdays judgment?
Kgosi Sithole
I am against that ruling because our kids are disrespectful these days, in the past, we used to spank kids to reprimand them. Now we don’t know what to do or how to do it, it is unfair because our kids have changed because they say they have rights and they not exerting their right accordingly.
I am now a grown woman and a parent but when I was young my parent use to spank me and they still reprimand me even today.
I discipline my child by spanking them even now and my children listen. I still want to use my methods to discipline my children, my 2 older children grew up to be respectful people and that is what I want for the young ones as well.
Why does the court decide for us without consulting us, they have to come to us on the ground so that we can tell them the challenges we face with kids, these days our kids are using drugs and they are becoming alcoholics.
Oupa Nyaka
I think the judgment will cause us more challenges because we will not be able to discipline children, when I was growing up I knew that if I do something wrong I will be punished and that is mainly because children are different they have different characters.
Personally I do not spank my children I prefer talking to them and if they do not comply I punish by suspending whatever activities they love for maybe two months.
But overall I think the court ruling makes it almost impossible to discipline children because spanking a child is not really a serious offence.
Bobo Charles
Our kids are different and parents should treat them as such so I discipline my child in my own way. I talk to my children I talk to my child, I teach them the difference between wrong and right.
I talk to my child about everything including their love life. We do not need corporal punishment parents to need to communicate with their children because we are all different.
The tweeter streets had this to say
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— Ibhari_FROM_Varsity (@AdvocateMangole) September 19, 2019
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— Ibhari_FROM_Varsity (@AdvocateMangole) September 19, 2019
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