Family Forum / Parenting / Spanking / July 2004

Why even PM Tony Blair admits to spanking his wayward youngsters.
So the unrealistic posters on this NG, childless, will have to wait for another
generation to pass.
Tony Blair feels it would be most impolitic to criminalize parents.  

Another conservative idea -- prison privatization -- has created a
contractual
monster that must be fed with a constant stream of inmates. A variety
of new

Subject: NM: Annemarie's parents should sue CFYD for removal
From: fern5827@aol.com  (Fern5827)
Date: 7/8/2004 9:09 AM Eastern Daylight Time
Message-id: <20040708090945.04915.00000910@mb-m24.aol.com>

More of that good ol' corporal punishment. This time in service to an
exorcism...we was just praying, say minister and mother.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,125236,00.html

The following is an excerpt from a draft of a book I'm writing, tentatively
titled _Are_Public_School_Monopolies_Unconstitutional?_
I'd be interested in hearing any thoughts on it.
                        Religious Freedom

http://www.geocities.com/cddugan/apsFAQ.html
This is the original newsgroup FAQ, not to be confused with the plagarized
altered version posted periodically by doan.
Chris

Kids must learn that they are slaves of their parents and must work
for them !
If they don't obey, they deserve spankings !
Kids must work in the Technetium Mines of Titan for 22 hours a day and

R. Steve Walz would have us believe that if we just forced parents to stop
using punishment, our world would turn into a paradise in which all children
are treated well.  But is that what would really happen?
At present, people who choose to parent without punishing tend to be

In the absence of any regular advice --here is some that doesn't
support punishing parents who don't follow them to the letter.
-Special notes to new posters:I do not support the reform of
reasonable force statutes that lead to punitive measures for parents