** From Robert White to Dennis Mccunney on 13 Aug 96  10:40:07
 ** Child abuse....
 DM> difficult to break.  There are large numbers of folks out thre who
 DM> are really unfit to be parents, but how do you identify them and
 DM> prevent problems?
 RW> All too true, and I'm not sure what the solution is here either.
 RW> Perhaps classes in parenting in high school?
 I don't think it would help the problems we're discussing.  It might 
 help in technical matters, by teaching some of the practical elements 
 involved, the way that Home Economics classes used to try to prepare 
 women for married life.
 But the spiral of abuse we're talking about won't be cured by clpoasses 
 in high school.   Abusers are generally abused themselves, and the 
 pathological behavior we're lamenting is something learned by 
 observation and example ay a *very* early age.
  
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