3 months ago: http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/09/16/spanking.children.parenting/index.html
Today: http://www.wzzm13.com/news/news_story.aspx?storyid=117216&catid=14-
Spanking now, as of today, in the new year, at this point in time- leads to more successful adults.
In short, stop funding all these studies because nobody knows anything and "experts" are mostly absolute phonies. It's all a big scam, people, and all this time all those annoying kids should have been spanked!!!
And, stop funding that Ask question commercial. Is that being funded by the goverment? I'm too annoyed to even google it.
Why is the goverment throwing away money when the American legal system is a disaster and there is homeless people everywhere and kids committing suicide! Ask questions of your doctor??? Duh, what?? are they going to even tell you anything that you really need to know. Maybe, who cares. Whaaaaaaaaaah. how much funds are being put into that "campaign."
I need to stay far away from a TV but it's impossible.
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The vast majority of professionals agree that child buttock-battering isn’t healthy. A marginal few (mostly religious fundamentalists as those at Calvin) think that child bottom-slapping is good. They use the same selective literalist interpretation of the Bible as was used to justify “witch”-burning, depraved torture methods for those accused of sin and heresy, slavery, racism, wife-beating, oppression of women and a host of other social ills.
Child buttock-battering vs. DISCIPLINE:
Child buttock-battering (euphemistically labeled "spanking","swatting","switching","smacking", "paddling",or other cute-sounding names) for the purpose of gaining compliance is nothing more than an inherited bad habit.
Its a good idea for people to take a look at what they are doing, and learn how to DISCIPLINE instead of hit.
I think the reason why television shows like "Supernanny" and "Dr. Phil" are so popular is because that is precisely what many (not all) people are trying to do.
There are several reasons why child bottom-slapping isn't a good idea. Here are some good, quick reads recommended by professionals:
Plain Talk About Spanking
by Jordan Riak,
The Sexual Dangers of Spanking Children
by Tom Johnson,
NO VITAL ORGANS THERE, So They Say
by Lesli Taylor M.D. and Adah Maurer Ph.D.
Most compelling of all reasons to abandon this worst of all bad habits is the fact that buttock-battering can be unintentional sexual abuse for some children. There is an abundance of educational resources, testimony, documentation, etc available on the subject that can easily be found by doing a little research with the recommended reads-visit www.nospank.net.
Just a handful of those helping to raise awareness of why child bottom-slapping isn't a good idea:
American Academy of Pediatrics,
American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry,
Center For Effective Discipline,
Churches' Network For Non-Violence,
Nobel Peace Prize recipient Archbishop Desmond Tutu,
Parenting In Jesus' Footsteps,
Global Initiative To End All Corporal Punishment of Children,
United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.
In 26 countries, child corporal punishment is prohibited by law (with more in process). In fact, the US was the only UN member that did not ratify the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
Hello PDeverit,
The problem is that the "vast majority of professionals" are not qualified nor wise enough to know what the hell they are talking about. I admit that I have no idea whether spanking is detrimental or not and I contend no one does. Spanking has certainly become something that supposedly isn't done and yet the kids today seem to be just as nutty as ever. So, I can't really argue with you and I can see that any violence should my guess is that verbal abuse done with real malice by any parent(or schoolmates) is what scars us most.
It probably has much more to do with intent than the actual act.
I don't agree with you about spanking having anything to do with sexual abuse and think that kind of mindset takes me back to some particularly unpleasant moments in a woman's studies class in College. I think seeing victimization in innocent acts is out of hand. Comparing spanking to slavery etc seems very excessive to me.
I think the reason that so many are tuning it to Dr. Phil and Supernanny is because we are taught as a society to not trust are instincts and to seek out these so called experts rather than rely on gut instinct or age old wisdom. These shows supply pat solutions and quaint platitudes for messy situations and I predict that Dr. Phil will go down in history as a big old quack, if history recognizes him at all.
thanks for coming by and I hope you stick around.
For one thing, buttock-battering can vibrate the pudendal nerve, which can lead to sexual arousal. There are multitudinous other physiological ways in which it can be sexually abusive, but I won't list them all here. One can use the resources I've posted if they want to learn more.
People used to think that "spanking" adult members of the community, military trainees, and prisoners was necessary. In some countries they still do. In our country, it is considered sexual assault, but only if one is 18 years of age or older.
Thinking about it I was never spanked. My mother would hit me quick when she was incensed but I was never officially spanked. I did grow up though with the beleif that parents shouldn't fear there kids and nowadays it does seem that parents are in fear of their kids.
So, I can't speak from any experience and I don't doubt that some pervert could spank their kids and they know that something is very wrong.
I don't think it becomes sexual abuse until the intent is sexual or even if their is a reckless disregard related to the pudenda etc.
Were you spanked, PDeverit? Do you think that parents should never touch their kids in anger etc?
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