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First Country To Ban Smacking
All forms of physical punishment against minors are illegal in Sweden as of 1979. Sweden was the first to outlaw the use of physical punishment on children. The government banned all forms of corporal punishment in 1979. Thus no child born after that time will have any recollection of ever being hit.
Assaulting a child carries the same penalties as an adult, including the requirement that the victim suffers actual physical injury or distress. Parents typically use logic and, in extreme cases, the patented “Swedish arm pull,” a technique that avoids smacking, with their children.
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