... Rights, means your government is required to amend the UK law. Hitting children is wrong. It violates a child's human rights. Currently everyone in the UK except children is protected against physical violence by law. What gives us the right to discriminate against children in this way and deny them the protection available to everyone else as their right? It is argued that the law exists in its current form, in order to maintain what is seen as a parents right to administer physical punishment. But this legislation in favour of adults is ignoring the rights of the child. Protection form violence is a basic human right. This right has been used in order to legislate against domestic violence between a man and a woman. This protection is also a basic human right in which all children are entitled too, as they are people with rights as much as adults.. There ...

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