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Seoul, the father who beat his son in a middle school student was arrested by the police.
While disciplined by my son, corporal punishment began, and my son was treated in a hospital.
Times have changed and laws have changed, so now the hawk of love can become'violence' rather than love.
Let’s look at the report by Han Sung-hee.
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police car mobilizes on the roadside, and a woman rolls her feet in front of the police car.
This woman is the mother of two sons who are middle school students, and she reported to the police that her husband was severely punished.
Police investigated that the husband hit his eldest son with fists and feet over an hour or so.
The child, who ran out of the house because he could not withstand his father's assault, tried to run away to the street, but soon he was caught and hit again.
It is said that violence began as a father disciplined his brothers not to fight each other.
[Witness: (Son) It seems like he ran away. I just ran, by the road. Fortunately, there was no accident... .] The
child who was hit by his father suffered a wound on his face and was treated in the hospital emergency room.
The police accused him of child abuse and separated his mother and two children from him.
Although it may be a bit severe, it may be said that it is a'hawk of love', but now parents should abandon the idea that they can punish their children.
On the 8th, an amendment to the civil law that removed the disciplinary rights clause, which was considered the basis for corporal punishment by parents, passed the National Assembly plenary session.
[Gong Hye-jung/CEO of the Korea Child Abuse Prevention Association:'Do not hit with flowers' means that you should not do anything that opens the possibility of violence. Child abuse also starts with the first one.]
Apart from the removal of disciplinary rights in the Civil Code, hitting a child can always result in physical abuse under the Child Welfare Act.
(Video coverage: Jongsoo Hong, Video editing: Jongwoo Kim)