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In reply to the discussion: I know I'm whining, but I wish corporal punishment had been criminalized a few decades earlier. [View all]Android3.14
(5,402 posts)120. It's a natural way that mammals teach their offspring
You observe how any other mammal deals with it's offspring, and you will see that nipping and biting is how it is often done with all the species I can think of off-hand. Sure, parents can drive kids crazy by beating them or even cause serious injury. But that is true of any style of punishment. Used with restraint, like almost all mammals tend to do, pain is an effective tool when raising offspring.
It simply is incorrect to say that spanking is ineffective.
All the article says is that some children spanked tend to have similar problems. The truth is that a quick swat on the butt does quickly change behavior in children without causing physical damage. People use it because it works.
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I know I'm whining, but I wish corporal punishment had been criminalized a few decades earlier. [View all]
Coventina
Sep 2014
OP
I change non-family adult's diapers often, yay for nurses who do what others won't.
uppityperson
Sep 2014
#16
Yet you were the one to bring up changing strangers diapers. Why bring it up if the analogy is not
uppityperson
Sep 2014
#25
Basic parenting would be kidnapping, false imprisonment as to a stranger. So this test doesn't work.
Romulox
Sep 2014
#102
I saw you making that false equivalency about abortion to someone else. It doesn't fly.
kcr
Sep 2014
#72
Do you support female genital mutilation? do you support the right of parents to do that
uppityperson
Sep 2014
#36
I guess your answer to that is not, and that all values are not to be respected, it is ok to force
uppityperson
Sep 2014
#44
Do you really believe there should be no laws addressing treatment of children, even ones own?
uppityperson
Sep 2014
#17
It is a difficult topic because it combines desire to do right with our emotional childhood memories
uppityperson
Sep 2014
#43
It was well before time outs were possible. I used time outs when child got to that age
uppityperson
Sep 2014
#55
I told them I treat kids like other people, if I see you about to do something dangerous or
uppityperson
Sep 2014
#113
wow, saying I feel sorry for children in your care is disrespecting your rights? but you
niyad
Sep 2014
#73
not if I see you abusing them. and that goes any time I see a person abusing a child, or
niyad
Sep 2014
#77
Children already here are separate entities from their parents, they are not property.
moriah
Sep 2014
#58
Society has every right to stop child abuse. Children are not the possessions of their parents,
pnwmom
Sep 2014
#80
70-90% of American parents. OK. Interesting that the article you cite makes the point that it's
Coventina
Sep 2014
#119
Hilarious! You cite an article to support your position that does nothing but debunk your position.
Coventina
Sep 2014
#122
how young is "really" young? and how is time out, for instance "reasoning" with them
cali
Sep 2014
#31
We had a door slammer, too. Easy fix: We took her bedroom door off the hinges
Blaukraut
Sep 2014
#48
Cops can kill your kid for misbehaving. What would you do to keep that from happening?
kickysnana
Sep 2014
#88