Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site aesat.UUCP Path: utzoo!aesat!rwh From: rwh@aesat.UUCP (Russ Herman) Newsgroups: net.kids Subject: Spanking Message-ID: <328@aesat.UUCP> Date: Fri, 18-Jan-85 07:22:44 EST Article-I.D.: aesat.328 Posted: Fri Jan 18 07:22:44 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 18-Jan-85 08:40:35 EST Organization: AES Data Inc., Mississauga, Ont., CANADA L5N 3C9 Lines: 39 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. -- ______ Russ Herman / \ {allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!aesat!rwh @( ? ? )@ ( || ) The opinions above are strictly personal, and ( \__/ ) do not reflect those of my employer (or even \____/ possibly myself an hour from now.)