As children’s doctors call for a smacking back in England and Nothern Ireland, one writer says the debate is absurd

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Our writer, Heidi Scrimgeour�s three children pictured laughing together in a park

Children in nursery singing nursery rhymes

Newborn baby wrapped in a wool blanket wearing a woolen hat

Parent high fiving child

Burger King sign

Mother talking to teenage daughter about sex

Teenage girl holding her phone

Woman craving sugar and eating a doughnut

A selection of foods to eat on a low sodium diet

foods high in iron

A family of all ages standing in the kitchen, cooking and eating together

mum on sofa with kids

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