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To: greenspirit who wrote (68676)	12/26/1999 1:20:00 AM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Michael, the Canadian university research team doing the spanking study and the youth law clinic launching the constitutional challenge against spanking are two separate entities. You seem to see a conspiracy whenever you don't agree with someone's point of view. But at the same time you quote all sorts of "research" from bought and paid for conservative think tanks when you are trying to make a point. I would think the more important question is why you are so steadfastly insistent that spanking is a good thing. I think reasonable people might at least consider rethinking their positions at this time, since the evidence in the Canadian study is not from child abuse, but from the kind of everyday spanking that normal parents do. It clearly states that not all children are affected, but certainly many are. Would you knowingly participate in some kind of parenting activity that leads to increased rates of alcoholism, drug addiction, and depression in your children? Why take the chance? It just isn't rational to me. I frankly don't think the argument of parents' rights and family privacy holds much water here. It is pretty much the same argument that was made for hitting women, and the law there has certainly changed radically in the last twenty years. In San Francisco now men who treat their wives violently cannot even get a diverted sentence, because so many of them were going back to do even more violence later.