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To: greenspirit who wrote (20560)	4/16/1998 11:51:00 PM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Michael, this post gets into exactly the question I was asking earlier. If as a society we agree that children can be spanked, shouldn't there still be consequences for child abuse? And what is the agreed upon definition of child abuse, anyway? While you could argue that parents CAN spank, I don't think you would get any agreement that spanking is very often the best way to discipline a child. So if it gets so ridiculous that we have to have regulatory boards and rule lists of what is, and is not, acceptable in terms of corporal punishment, why not just outlaw it completely like Sweden did. Do you think any actual harm would come of that? I understand the parents' rights issue, but in some ways outlawing spanking totally seems like less of an intrusion on parents' rights. And just exactly what rights should parents have, anyway? Where would you personally draw the line on what a parent can do to a child?