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To: greenspirit who wrote (68690)	12/26/1999 2:07:00 AM
From: Grainne	Respond to of 108807

I got the idea that you thought spanking was a good thing from this post, particularly the last sentence I quotes, where you are saying that many parents have found spanking to be an effective child rearing technique. I would generally interpret all your statements in this post as generally saying spanking is a good thing. Certainly, you are arguing that there is no evidence that an occasional spanking is harmful. You repeat the same pattern all the time, Michael. First you accuse my of misrepresenting your posts, when all I could possibly be guilty of is interpreting them rather than repeating every word of them every time I discuss your points. Then, after several of your statements or your sources of information have been proven invalid, you get all bent out of shape and leave Feelings for awhile, accusing me of all sorts of things I have not done. In the meantime I often ask you to clarify your opinions, out of fairness to you and trying to understand you. So, do you still believe that spanking is harmless? This pattern has been going on so long that I don't even trip on it anymore, but I don't really think it serves you very well, and I certainly don't feel guilty about it, because your accusations are always false. In response to your point about the social cost of interfering with the family, as I said before, there is a huge social cost to alcoholism, drug addiction and depression. And I do not understand what is gloriously untouchable about a family which is hurting a child. <<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 . . .>>