Family Forum / Parenting / Spanking / February 2007

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=al2UfX7kycM
14 Minutes 43 Seconds long
One girl was told that if she couldn't take the pills
she could not stay in that particular Foster home.

Have social ills of the past been stopped by a scientific debate?
The debate that matters is the moral one.
What makes it moral to delibertately hit a child to control and teach
him or her, and immoral to do the same to an adult?

Well, an obvious anser to this question is to discipline their kids, to
make them behave well. But my point is, why do they need to use
corporal punishment? Do they feel it's a kind of moral obligation to
spank their kids? Is it a religious obligation?

Caseworkers

And they will WONDER why Citizens sue the crap out of them?
Messing with the middle or upper classes may

http://www.nbc6.net/newsnet/10921859/detail.html
Child Welfare Investigators Fired Over False Reports
UPDATED: 3:18 pm EST February 3, 2007
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- Two Department of Children and Families

Anti-spanking zealotS has said that correlation (confusing it with CAUSE)
is useful.  A STUPID LIAR here even claimed that rockets have been
launched using correlation studies.  Some even pointed out to a study
on prison inmates to show that spanking is EVIL.   So let's look at

What is the spanking rate in Thailand, Kane?
Doan

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/301999_fostersuit01.html
$45 million claim filed against state over foster dad charged with
abuse
By VANESSA HO     P-I REPORTER

http://www.fdno.org/10_tips.html
TEN TIPS WHEN THE SOCIAL WORKER IS AT YOUR DOOR
Detective Robert R. Surgenor (Retired)
Family Defense Network of Ohio

The following is a summary of the Gunnoe study, full text can be viewed at:
http://www.ama-assn.org/sci-pubs/journals/archive/ajdc/vol_151/no_8/oa6488a.htm
Title: Spanking and Children's Aggression...
[Abstract, August Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 1997;151:768-775] (c) AMA 1997

You'll let me know quickly when Ken gets that load he promised to dump
on you..unhh..with you, okay?
It will be all that researched evidence that children that are not
spanked are at risk of developing 'sociopathy.'

"The headline of this article states that "Spanking your child raises risk
of aggression and anxiety". In fact, that claim is not found in the
research article on which this story is based. It is very difficult to
establish causality in these types of studies, as child aggression ...