From SM-201 Jump to: navigation, search   France is a country in
Europe with a population of about 63 million. Its official
language is French.  Spanking in France  From antiquity to
modernism, spanking was as popular in France as in the rest of
Europe, and its use as a parenting tool greatly reduced in the
2nd half of the 20th century. Nonabusive spanking isn't illegal
in France however, as in Sweden, Germany and other European
countries. On 23 December 2009, Paris MP and paediatrician
Edwige Antier has proposed a bill which would prohibit corporal
punishment, including spanking of children.  The French gave the
world a special spanking implement: the martinet.  Spanking poll
2006/2007  An investigation of the Union des familles en Europe
carried out in 2006/2007 among 685 grandparents, 856 parents and
776 children in France gave the following results:  95% of the
grandparents, 95% of the parents and 96% of the children got
spanked. The spankings came mainly from their parents. Non-
parental spanking has decr