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From: rwh@aesat.UUCP (Russ Herman)
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Subject: Spanking
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Date: Fri, 18-Jan-85 07:22:44 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan 18 07:22:44 1985
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From the Toronto _Globe and Mail_, Friday Jan. 18, 1985

		FOSTER CARE REGULATION TO PROHIBIT SPANKING
			Dorothy Lipovenko

The Ontario Government plans to ban corporal punishment of foster children ...

The new policy will prohibit foster families from using corporal punishment -
spanking, hitting, pushing, or shoving - as a means of discipline, even
though child welfare officials acknowledge that an increasing number of older,
hard-to-handle children are being placed into foster care.

...

Greg O'Neill, Ontario's foster care co-ordinator, said the new discipline
rules are an extension of Government policy prohibiting the use of corporal
punishment by staff in day-care centres, training schools and other
provincially financed operations for children.

"When a child comes into care, he doesn't have the protection of his own
family", Mr. O'Neill said yesterday. "It is the responsibility of the state
to ... find the means of dealing with that child's behavior."

He said the ministry "will not back down" on its position, even though
child-welfare agencies are divided on whether foster parents have the right
to use force to discipline a child.

Some parents resort to overzealous physical discipline because of stress and
burnout, Mr. O'Neill said. To reduce the potential for using corporal
punishment, the ministry is recommending that foster families be given more
support services such as baby sitting, parent relief and visits by a
homemaker or child care worker.
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