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Le Taz Hot

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26. Please,

Reply to Pisces (Reply #24)

Sun Sep 14, 2014, 03:18 PM

Sep 2014

cite your source(s).

Thanks,

LTH

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I was switched all the time as a kid. [View all] Are_grits_groceries Sep 2014 OP

Both are abuse, in my experience and opinion. Heidi Sep 2014 #1

I agree. Are_grits_groceries Sep 2014 #4

I know you weren't minimizing it. Heidi Sep 2014 #5

Being hit hard is very different from beiing hit until you have deep cuts and require medical merrily Sep 2014 #2

I disagree. Are_grits_groceries Sep 2014 #3

We see it differently. I think that kid's beating is different from the merrily Sep 2014 #6

Just a point of fact. Jenoch Sep 2014 #22

My childhood experiences justiceischeap Sep 2014 #7

And some mean that the adult child wants nothing to do with the parent ever again, pnwmom Sep 2014 #38

Of the several whippings I got growing up one stands out. TexasProgresive Sep 2014 #8

My sister cut the buttons off most of our father's jackets and pants... 4139 Sep 2014 #9

I got spankings and some switchings as a kid, but nothing that drew blood. MoonRiver Sep 2014 #10

You don't have the stick in your psyche, but, you mentioned HereSince1628 Sep 2014 #11

Oh I have no doubt that the switchings left Are_grits_groceries Sep 2014 #12

I think members of our society are vulnerable to discounting such things HereSince1628 Sep 2014 #13

I think you are right. Are_grits_groceries Sep 2014 #15

I was very devious a a kid HipChick Sep 2014 #14

What is happening in that little video? oberliner Sep 2014 #19

"Rob Ford looks at food" librechik Sep 2014 #41

I never understood Glitterati Sep 2014 #16

One that never made sense to me was, Le Taz Hot Sep 2014 #25

So were many of my friends malaise Sep 2014 #17

Which is one of the problems with interpreting violence from within a culture HereSince1628 Sep 2014 #20

That's a profound observation malaise Sep 2014 #23

Can relate to you about the "games" and mental cruelty oberliner Sep 2014 #18

If perfect strangers treated one another the way "loving" families act.... Paladin Sep 2014 #21

90% of the population of the 80"s and back would be in jail according to some on this board. Also Pisces Sep 2014 #24

Please, Le Taz Hot Sep 2014 #26

Here are 2 links, oh and what surprised me is that 90% still spank their kids today. Pisces Sep 2014 #27

Your claim was that, "90% of the population of the 80"s and back would be in jail according to some" Le Taz Hot Sep 2014 #31

Just curious Feral Child Sep 2014 #28

I am not defending spanking. How obtuse can some be. THere is a difference between abuse and Pisces Sep 2014 #29

Thanks for the link Feral Child Sep 2014 #33

If 90% do it phil89 Sep 2014 #35

and 10 percent of us (more really) say you don't know what the fuck you are talking about. CBGLuthier Sep 2014 #30

My mother did hit me LiberalElite Sep 2014 #32

I was never switched, RebelOne Sep 2014 #34

I got whipped a lot as a kid Spirochete Sep 2014 #36

parents didnt know better. now they should all know better and cut that crap out Liberal_in_LA Sep 2014 #37

My mom said her mother made them pick their own switches senseandsensibility Sep 2014 #39

Yeah :( BlindTiresias Sep 2014 #40