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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Neocon who wrote (66385)12/14/1999 1:41:00 AM
From: Grainne  Read Replies (1) of 108807
 
<<The results of the Canadian study are not conclusive enough to break such a basic compact.....>>

It strikes me that in your attempt to defend either your world view or maybe your allies, you are starting to make yourself sound illogical and weak.

There is no "compact" about spanking children. There are cultures where children are not spanked at all, and others like Sweden where they were in the past but there is rapid social and legislative change taking place and the practice is rapidly disappearing. While a majority of American parents still do spank, the precentage drops slightly every year. It seems to me that this is a very healthy reexamination of a damaging practice.

Since you disagree, and have brushed aside the results of numerous studies, not just the Canadian one, can you perhaps come at this from another angle and find any respectable, scholarly studies published in mainstream medical journals which actually SUPPORT spanking as a positive practice, and have statistics to back up their research, showing how children benefit and become healthier as the result of being hit? How about some studies of prisoners and juvenile delinquents showing conclusively that most of them were never struck by a parent or caregiver? Or articles that reveal that a huge majority of mentally ill, depressed, alcoholic and drug-addicted adults had parents who never laid a hand to them, in anger or otherwise?
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