BBC媒体英语新闻：France criticised for failure to ban smacking 法国因没能禁止家长打孩子受批评(mp3)

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[00:08.00]France allows parents the "right to discipline" their children, while banning violence against them. 
[00:13.73]In 2013, a  father was fined 500 Euros for smacking his nine-year-old son - 
[00:18.53]the ruling sparked a fierce debate about the rights  of parents and their children, 
[00:23.50]with one poll suggesting more than 80% of French saw the matter as a personal one -  not one for the courts to decide.
[00:30.46]Responding to the European ruling, France's minister for the family, Laurence Rossignol, 
[00:35.63]told the French news  agency AFP that she didn't believe a law on smacking was necessary: "for abusive parents, 
[00:42.67]we have the penal code"  she said, but we do need a collective debate on the usefulness of corporal punishment.
[00:48.57]At the moment, it is up to French courts to decide where the line between violence and acceptable punishment lies. 
[00:55.30]The Council of Europe committee has called for an explicitprohibition of all corporal punishment of children.

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BBC媒体英语新闻：France criticised for failure to ban smacking 法国因没能禁止家长打孩子受批评(mp3)