MP>JK>BM> Institutionalized child abuse is what you are talking about.  I
MP>JK>BM> grew up in that era Jane, as did you.  Physical punishment was
MP>JK>BM> meted out at the drop of a hat for the most innocuous of things.
MP>JK>Not where I went to school.  And by therapuetic spanking, I  mean by
MP>JK>parents.  This notion of spoiling the child to the nearest juvenile
MP>JK>corrections institution is something that came along long after my
MP>JK>children were raised, thank heaven.
MP>And you have said that your daughter disagrees with you, thank heaven.
Yup. All three of them were carefully raised to be responsible for what
they thought and how they acted.
MP>Beating a child into submission does nothing except prove that the adult
MP>is weak.
You have discipline confused with child beating....the result of over
zealous social workers who don't have the faintest idea at all of how
the brain and body work and who don't have to pass hard science courses
in order to get their degree.
Shame on you.
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