
Mary Marsh of NSPCC (Britain' main children's charity) says: "It should be as wrong to hit a child as an adult". However, in a recent survey in th UK, 83 % of parents said that children needed to be smacked sometimes and that smacking was good for a child.
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Smacking is banned in many countries.
In England and Wales, you can legally give your child 'a light smack', but you can be jailed if you leave a bruise, a scratch or cut on child's skin.