Cal. Assembly Committee Approves Bill to Criminalize Spanking

Yesterday, the Cal. Family Council issued this press release that begins:

Assembly Bill 2943 (Lieber) was approved today by the Assembly Committee on Public Safety.  If approved by the Legislature and signed by the governor, the bill would make the ordinary practice of spanking a child by a parent a criminal act.  This legislation, veiled as a prohibition of corporal punishment and child abuse, makes no distinction between an acceptable form of parental discipline – a spanking – and the violent act of “brandishing a deadly weapon upon a child.” . . .