Family Forum / Parenting / Spanking / November 2005

"I'm still waiting for anyone to take up my long offered
challenge...find me some violent criminals that were not spanked or
otherwise subjected to pain based parenting."
I also have been stymied finding civilizations not corrupted by the

The claim, by some Christianity motivated "researchers," such as
Lazrlere, is that child abuse went up in Sweden after the spanking ban.
The question should have been, did PARENTAL abuse of children go up?
Here's a thought:

Apparently not. But it looks like some folks, a rather large
contingent, think it's somewhere in the infant stage, with whips and
switches being used on them for crying.
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/02/06/MNGJ4B6UE11.DTL

I am a parent of 2 very young school aged girls.  There are times I wonder if I am being the best parent for them. My spouse and I both work, just like other parents. We went through the years (and expense) of daycare.  We have gone through the abuse at daycare.
We have done ...