Sweden 1 - UK 0

As a Swede living in the UK I am mostly assimilated into the UK culture. Sometimes I found my adopted country (Sweden will always always be nr 1 just to make sure that is clear...) a bit quirky and amusing, different, interesting. But rarely totally and brutally alien to my values.

Here is an exception. It is still allowed to spank your children here. In 2010.... How??? There is recent pressure from "Europe" to outlaw any spanking and the press and the public comments are quite alien to me. The amount of people who get upset about the potential outlawing of parents hitting those smaller than them, who will not understand the reasons why their behaviour justfied pain, and who will become confused, insecure and more violent themselves (fact! how many research reports on this subject do we need?) as they see it as a "nanny state" trying to control every aspect of the citizens' life, and "I got spanked as a child and it did me good" harr harr

What a load of bollocks....

Heja Sverige! Sweden was the first European country to outlaw any violence to children back in 1979!