United Nations says Guyana must criminalize spanking by parents

Friday, February 6, 2004

GENEVA, Switzerland: The Committee on the Rights of the Child has concluded its thirty-fifth session and issued its conclusions and recommendations to various countries reporting on their compliance with the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. 

The Convention prohibits parents from using spanking as a form of discipline and intrudes on many other aspects of family life including insisting on graphic sex education, and major restrictions on parental authority over their minor children.

A UN press release on the session indicates that during the session the committee told Guyana to outlaw spanking, however light, by parents in the home. Guyanese officials were told to "expressly prohibit corporal punishment by law in the family, schools and other institutions." 

Media commentary has contrasted the UN's concern for children over spanking with its militant promotion of abortion, homosexuality and just about any method of population control and the elimination of more children coming into the world. The usual two parent family life, within which children best thrive, is heavily undermined by many U.N. policies as part of its high priority population control agenda.

Poor countries are regularly blackmailed by UN and other international organizations into accepting population control measures in exchange for food and medical aid. Many of these nations are still denied the basic necessities for their children to survive and are instead inundated with condoms and other contraceptives and sex-ed programs.

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