An Auckland Christian school is unrepentant about sending a pamphlet to parents explaining how to spank children effectively.Carey College, a small school of about 50 students in Panmure, hit back today at Green MP Sue Bradford, who described the pamphlet as "outrageous and slightly perverse".
The pamphlet, A Working Definition of Spanking, is published on the website of Family Integrity, a Palmerston North group set up 18 months ago by Craig and Barbara Smith of the Home Education Foundation, a Christian home-schooling support group.
It says many Christians see spanking as part of their religious duty to deal with "a child's rebellious actions and attitudes as soon as they manifest themselves in any of the four Ds: disobedience, dishonesty, disrespect or destructiveness".
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