Family Forum / Parenting / Spanking / July 2006

For those of us who fight and lobby for humane treatment of children,
and who believe children have the right to a children without fear of
being hit and hurt in the name of discipline, please read the following
article.

Kane asked why should children be spanked and why only for major
misbehavior. My answer is that I believe children should be spanked for
major misbehavior but a spanking for minor misbehavior isn't necessary.
To put it another way, I don't think you should spank for every

I think children should be spanked. However, only for major
misbehavior. The punishment, a spanking, should be given in love. If
punishment by timeouts or the taking away of privileges can be given in
love, than why can't a spanking be given in love.

What was this child removed from her parents for?
http://www.app.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060721/NEWS02/607210447/1070/BUSINESS
Shocked judge sentences pair to prison for disabled girl's nightmare
foster care

This was I scene I recently saw at a theme park...
just after a ride on the waverunner yesterday, I heard a bit of a
commotion, and when I looked it was a 9 or 10 yr old kid who's mum was
attempting to drag him onto the ride - The poor kid obviously didn't

koo-koo's care little for the children and families they use as soapboxes
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Smack ban 'breaking up families'
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10392102

While her father described his daughter as a child who "lied and was a
challenging child whom Meier (his girlfriend) "disciplined by spanking,
putting soap in her mouth and making her do jumping jacks," her
grandmother and mother describe her as "constantly challenging others

Focus on the Family recommends this book by Lisa Whelchel
(the actress who played Blair on The Facts of Life)
Looking at the stuff she recommends I don't understand why her
children haven't been taken away from her.  What a bizarre book.

The following was printed in the StarTribune, Tuesday, July 18:
"Jordan Amber Gonsiorski, 10, had burns on 70 percent of her body, and
acute bruising when she was found at her father's Blaine home....On
Monday, Jordan's father, Jason G. Gonsioroski, 26, and his live-in

I've now experienced Robospanker at a party where the host offered us
all the chance to get on board. I can report that:
(a) Owning a Robospanker is a really good way to get your guests to
take their pants off (mine came straight off, so did all the boys' and

I am a single mom of 3 children. My daughter is 7 yrs old, almost 8.. Her
bio-father just decided he wants to play daddy after being the absent
parent for 7 yrs, he's been getting his visitations with my daughter every
other weekend.

Foster-parenting my 4-year-old grandson.
Not allowed to spank.
He does whatever he wants and insists on it and we have no control.
What can we do?  He's got us by our gonads!

Yep folks, it's official. Corporal punishment of children is illegal in
at least one state.
http://www.tribune-georgian.com/articles/2006/06/28/news/opinion/letters/4letter
6.28.txt

opposition to ill-defined child abuse and neglect doesn't equate into
support for an overpriced, overbearing, and incompetent bureaucracy as
the solution.....................the real tragedy of the cps mess is
its heavy-handed and agenda-driven bureaucracy destroyed the public's

some religious traditions contain stories of miraculous
experiences............there are visions, bolts of lightning, and other
supernatural events that so profoundly affect the person that it
changes their life.................events in childhood can also