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An article by Markéta Hanzlíková on the proposed amendment of the Czech Civil Code on the unacceptability of physical punishment of children.
Current legislation in the Czech Republic prohibits corporal punishment in education, prisons and employment. Violence is prosecuted between adults, including domestic violence in partner relationships. However, when it comes to children, the most vulnerable members of our society, physical punishment is still tolerated by law and society.
Consequently, we welcome the forthcoming amendment to the Civil Code, which proposes changing the above and fix the duties and rights of parents to care for the child, including in particular care for the child’s health, physical, emotional, intellectual and moral development’: “without corporal punishment, mental hardship or other degrading measures”.
Although the proposal as currently drafted does not contain a stronger formulation in the form of an explicit prohibition of physical punishment of children, nor any specific sanction in the event of a violation, it would certainly be a shift for the better if the legislator were to adopt the proposal, and at the very least an unequivocal declaration that the use of physical punishment against children would not be considered “normal” in Czech society.
Read the full article regarding the above in Czech here: https://blog.peterkapartners.com/?p=421