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To: Neocon who wrote (67141)	12/18/1999 11:26:00 AM
From: jlallen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Very well said Neo. JLA

To: Neocon who wrote (67141)	12/18/1999 1:27:00 PM
From: greenspirit	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

Good post Neo, I would simply add that constant daily verbal abuse can be far more harmful than a few swats on the behind. Not to mention never being there at all as a parent. Michael

To: Neocon who wrote (67141)	12/18/1999 3:36:00 PM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

Your post is logical in that it points out the many ways children can be damaged, Neo. I think that how spanking is different than life circumstances that give children different experiences--some of them wonderful and nurturing, some of them scary and sad--is that spanking is concrete. Either it is occurring, or it is not. On the other hand, a child with divorced parents or one who is a vegetarian may experiences positives or negatives as the result. Certainly, vegetarians are healthy and live several years longer on average than meat eaters. And many teenagers are vegetarians; there are so many of them out here in San Francisco that meat eaters may be the outcasts. Many children whose parents were very unhappy and argued a lot see the years after divorce as better than the ones before. One of the things all the studies seem to suggest is that spanking has very little, if any, positive benefit, and that while many children do survive the practice, almost all severely damaged--drug and alcohol addicted, imprisoned, mentally ill--children have been spanked. Given this, it is difficult to make a family rights issue out of it. Would anything at all bad happen if it were made illegal? I cannot think of a single thing.