Smacking, even in families, should be made illegal to protect children from abuse, says a report from a cross party group of British MPs.

What happened to Victoria Climbié began with “little slaps”

The health select committee has called the “reasonable chastisement” that parents and carers use to defend actions of physical punishment on children as “increasingly anomalous,” saying that the law as it currently stands can hinder the prosecution of child abuse cases.

In a report …