DINNER PARTY INTEL: Spanking new law
France MPs have voted overwhelmingly in favour of a bill that bans parents from smacking their children
1. Spanking new law As the Constitutional Court decides on the right of parents to spank their children, in an application brought by Freedom of Religion SA, in France MPs have voted overwhelmingly in favour of a bill that bans parents from smacking their children. The "corporal punishment or humiliation" bill seeks to ensure that parental authority is exercised without violence. It now goes to the senate. About 85% of French parents resort to corporal punishment. Previous attempts to ban the practice have failed, though it has long been outlawed in French schools, as it is in this country.
2. Belated compensation The Dutch state-owned rail company is to compensate survivors and relatives of Jews transported in its trains to the Nazi death camps during World War 2. Nederlandse Spoorwegen ferried 102,000 people to concentration camps across Europe. It apologised in 2002. The decision to pay follows talks with Salo Muller, 82, a former Ajax football club physiotherapist, whose p...
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