Law change Stories

The year is still 2030. Jessica was forty, a senior manager, and, following her separation from her husband, she moved back in with her mum, Pamela, who was sixty-five. Jessica had followed the consultation that had taken place regarding the reinstatement of spanking as the standard punishment within a family, rather than grounding. Even though she had never been spanked, or maybe because she hadn’t been spanked and had o...

The year is 2030 and major changes were taking place to what was the acceptable punishment that can be given within families. For decades, it was considered that spanking was cruel, so parents resorted to grounding for one or even several days, and that included taking away all of the electronic devices. That led to a huge amount of boredom on the part of the son or daughter being grounded, and a serious disruption in the...