MPs try again to ban smacking children

A law which would make France the 55th country in the world, and the 23rd in the EU, to legally ban the smacking of children was due to be debated by MPs at the end of November.

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Published Thursday 22 November 2018 - 15:19 Modified Thursday 22 November 2018 - 15:19

The latest anti-smacking proposal comes nearly two years after France’s Constitutional Council struck down the last attempt to outlaw physical punishment against children on technical grounds.

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