Tuesday, October 16. 2018

Today's schedule is CDAB

This is me missing you today...I am just a sad puppy

D & A Block Human Geography - I wish I could say "today we're looking at the key question Where are Folk and Popular Material Culture Distributed?",but alas I cannot. Today, I lose you. Sigh.... You will be working with the careers and work experience office today to discuss stuff other than Human Geography. I guess it will be important or they wouldn't have asked to take you away from me today. Don't worry, it'll be fine and tomorrow you'll be back in room 115 looking forward to learning more about the differences between folk and popular culture in the modern globalized world. Until then I'll just hang out here and I don't know look at a globe I guess. Sigh...

B Block Criminology - Okay, so we know where violence comes from. We know what homicide is, the divisions of murder and why people do it. We understand what sexual assault is, the typology of assault and the motives for doing it. Today we'll look at abuse and domestic assault (tomorrow hate crimes and terrorism).

Ending Violence
Ending Violence BC Getting Help
Domestic Violence It's Never OK
Domestic Violence and Abuse

Now, legally speaking, parents have rights to use corrective measures in order to discipline children. This issue was raised in the Canadian Foundation for Children, Youth and the Law v. Canada (Attorney General) 2004 case. In its decision, the Supreme Court of Canada upheld Section 43 of the Criminal Code which "provides that a parent, teacher, or person acting in the place of a parent is justified in using force to correct a child’s behaviour that is under his or her care provided that the force used is reasonable in all of the circumstances". So what is "force"? The force must be used for educative or corrective purposes (not as a form of punishment) relating to restraining, controlling, or expressing disapproval of the actual behaviour of a child capable of benefiting from that correction; the force cannot result in harm or the prospect of harm.

My question is "Should parents have the full authority to discipline their children as they see fit or should parents never be allowed to use physical force on their children"?