Metro readers discuss smacking kids, prison sex,
socialism and rat shaming

A reader describes how being hit as a child affected him in adulthood while another blames gentle parenting for the poor behaviour of our kids (Picture: Metro/Getty/Met Police)

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'I was smacked and I think I turned out OK, but...'

Ben (MetroTalk, Wed) says the more people who adopt the ‘jelly-soft outlook’ on banning smacking, the more ‘insecure, wokey people we’ll get’.