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The number of police recordings of “common assault” on children increased from around 3,900 cases to 6,200 after the law change. It seems highly likely that most of this dramatic increase consists of parents whose actions constituted reasonable chastisement—innocent parents who caused no harm whatever. Those parents have fallen foul of a politically correct ban on the kind of loving personal discipline that most of us experienced as children and many of us have used as parents.