Frankly if people can't teach right and wrong without violently smacking their children, then they don't deserve them and they don't deserve to live in this country.
Also it seems to (unsurprisingly) have the exact opposite effect on unruly (anti-social) children, it makes them worse offenders and more aggressive, ergo it seems rather logical to me that they'd be more likely to commit passionate crimes in the future.
I mean just look at the incidence of child abuse victims that go on to themselves be child abusers, it's hardly a stretch to include all forms of abuse and resultant outcomes... which I might add includes coddling children too much, the other extreme is nearly as unreasonable for children who are forced to learn morality from peers instead.
A couple of days ago you were stating crime in the high immigrant level Singapore is very low and indicates high immigration need not equate to disruption. I explained why that is, and it includes the lawful ability to physically punish your children. You ignored the reply. Given a sufficiently robust policing and punishment system it is obviously possible for high immigration, probably carefully selected, to result in a low crime situation. However without a sufficiently robust policing and punishment system it seems this is not likely, as the UK clearly indicates with its published ethnic crime rates. For your appraisal here again is how Singapore ensures harmony, or at least adherence to lawfulness:
They have the death sentence for murder, narcotic usage and narcotic supply, mandatory in many instances. Lesser criminals get a damn good beating. They have a very robust attitude to criminality in general hence they have one of the world's lowest crime rates. They are allowed to physically punish their children if deemed necessary for their obedience to stay safe or within the law. If I was being nasty I might also say because they don't listen to people like you
These beatings of adult male offenders are thought to be a very good deterrent, they are not some Billy Bunter affair, they are canings using a water soaked rattan cane of half inch diameter. The multiple strokes are administered under medical supervision by fit, robust men, and have to be given using all the strength they can muster on bare buttocks of the naked criminal in a partitioned off prison yard.
The recipient is tied to a trestle and often faints. The scars can be lifelong. The recipients are not told when they will be taken from their cells for punishment, which adds to the psychological trauma and apparently results in very few reoffending and coming back for more...
Misdemeanours and offences that can result in a beating include vandalism, graffitti, sexual molestation, grooming, sexual impropriety, illegal immigration, legal immigration that results in outstaying of passes, hiring illegal immigrants, transporting illegal immigrants, rioting, public order offences and many many more.
All these offences are highly prevalent in the UK, yet very rare in Singapore. One has to assume they don't "like it across `em".
I have no doubt at all that if the UK justice and punishment system changed overnight to mimic that of Singapore a massive and rapid drop in criminality would result.
