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Parents have a right to bring up their children as they see fit. Shouldn’t they be challenged only in extreme cases of child abuse?

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Parents have a right to bring up their children as they see fit. Shouldn’t they be challenged only in extreme cases of child abuse?

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Societies are moving on from seeing children as their parents’ property to seeing them as people in their own right. As human beings, children enjoy human rights and these do not stop at the front door of their home. Children have the same right as all other family members to protection from being hit, and it is no more invasive of privacy and family life to insist that the law protects children in the home than to insist that men stop beating their wives.