Spanking Child With Wooden Spoon Not Child Abuse, Says State Court

[Buddyblazon]

466. No..

When the authorities get called for child abuse, do you think that all that happens is counseling? Because generally when there is a call for child abuse the children are removed from the household.

Number two...

The vast majority WEREN'T spanked. They were either beaten horribly...or ignored completely. There was zero normal discipline in their lives. She knows because she had to go through every single ones of their case packets. She had to counsel them. She did this for a decade. In this case, she absolutely knows exponentially more than you about the kids she had to deal with.

Number three...

I was spanked maybe a half dozen times in my childhood. And you better believe that after it was over I was well aware that what I did was very bad. The reason I was only spanked a half dozen times is because I learned that lesson immediately and I never did whatever prompted the spanking in the first place.

The fact of the matter is what those kids lacked in my wife's group home was that they were NEVER disciplined as children. Nobody cared about them. Once they've gone into their teenage years, many of them had learned to deal with being upset by attacking people and/or breaking things. My wife was punched in the face a dozen or more times. She was threatened with death 1000's of times. She was attacked with scissors, knives, anything that could do bodily harm on many occasions.

Of course at that age, it becomes darn close to impossible to get them to respond any differently regardless of the years of counseling they got. They had one of the highest success rates in the state and they were still only around 10-15% success rate.

Spanking is not child abuse. Beating a child is child abuse. Berating a child continually is child abuse. A quick swat to the backside is simply checking a childs ego.