"More United Nations Law-Making
Some years ago, the United States refused to sign the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. Every nation in the world except the U.S. and Sudan has since signed this international treaty. The U.S.'s reason for not signing was that it feared that it would surrender its national sovereignty and ability to control its own laws. This has now been clearly shown once again in Canada. This UN committee has just instructed Canada to 'adopt legislation to remove the existing authorization of the use of 'reasonable force' in disciplining children.' It says Canada should 'explicitly prohibit all forms of violence against children, however light, within the family, in schools and in other institutions where children might be placed.' Translating this fancy language, what it says is that this international body has now interfered with Canada's sovereignty and is telling them that they must pass a law to make spanking of a child a crime."

This reminds me of the calls to make it illegal for children under the age of 12 to work. Children under the age of 12 have always worked, since there were people. Was it that bad? They seemed to turn into decent adults.