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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ilaine who wrote (67114)	12/18/1999 12:35:00 AM
From: Grainne	Respond to of 108807

Blue, it was not my intention to start any discussion at all about ethnicity, or to focus on labelling families based on ethnic (or economic) background. I was simply responding to a discussion of the spanking research where ethnic mothers were described as warm and strict. I was arguing that these qualities are incongruent, in my opinion. There are horrible parents at all socioeconomic levels, and I agree with you that there is far more scrutiny of those near the bottom of the heap. There was some evidence from a study which was released this week which studied abused women, however, which indicated that the women themselves did not have as many characteristics in common as had been thought--i.e., coming from backgrounds where they were beaten, having low self-esteems, etc. However, the men who were abusive tended to have marginal education and job skills, living closer to the edge of economic security than the average. I am a little too tired now to find the study; it was in the national news, however. My point is that while there are people from all social classes who are abusive, there is also an issue of feeling powerless which is a common chord in all this, and the upper economic/social classes are less likely to feel powerless.