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To: Grainne who wrote (68058)	12/22/1999 3:49:00 AM
From: greenspirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Christine, there are many things which are good for children that we don't legislate. Is it good for children to drink coke, eat Mcdonalds, potato chips, hot-dogs, etc. The biggest threat to the health of a child is living in a one parent household. Should we legislate that people stay married? If society goes down a road of trying to legislate all behavior they deem healthy for children. Where should it end? There is no real scientific evidence to point towards in which an occasional spanking is considered harmful to a child. So what gives you the right to arrest another parent and put them jail for not adhearing to a certain way of child rearing? Child abuse has been shown to damage a child. An occasional spanking has not. Occasionally spanking a child is considered by many parents as an effective child rearing technique. Adults are considered responsible for their own behavior, and do not require further disciplining methods. Their discipline is taken care of by the court system. Sometimes they are killed for extreme mis-behavior. I trust in parents more than I do the government to know what is right for a particular child. That's part of what freedom is all about. With freedom comes some risk, but without freedom we end up building a society filled with laws in which neighbors are encouraged to stick their nose inside everyones house, and look over everyones fence to report offenders like a "secret police force". Michael