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Johonny

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14. Given all the evidence why is it so easy for some experts to appear on TV

Tue Sep 16, 2014, 03:51 PM

Sep 2014

and complain about "feminizing" men. It isn't just the idiot Rush out there. There is now a whole cottage industry of "experts" telling people that this evidence doesn't exist and spanking and switching is okay. Why can't we get actual studies on these subjects to the forefront of the conversation. It is maddening to hear people totally blow these studies off in the press for "In my day" type of lectures. It is encouraging that more and more places in the country are ending physical punishment of children, and more and more parental advice books steer away from it. It is maddening to hear your generation isn't as "tough" as the old from people because you are choosing to do something that the evidence is pointing out is so obviously the right thing to do.

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Spanking is linked to changes in brain chemistry [View all] cali Sep 2014 OP

stress, the fear damages people. adults too and animals.hardest on the young, they're growing. Sunlei Sep 2014 #1

Kicking. Thank you. nt littlemissmartypants Sep 2014 #2

It is my opinion that centuries of slavery, then Jim Crow duhneece Sep 2014 #3

Actively teaching children starting early in school compassion, kindness, Dont call me Shirley Sep 2014 #7

Yes, yes, yes duhneece Sep 2014 #20

Flattered. Married. Dont call me Shirley Sep 2014 #22

Curses. duhneece Sep 2014 #25

And drats! Dont call me Shirley Sep 2014 #28

Daily spanking a child creates a traumatized nonfunctional adult. Dont call me Shirley Sep 2014 #4

It doesn't need to be daily to damage. cali Sep 2014 #5

Correct cali. And generally the spanking is an adjunct to other damaging parenting behaviors. Dont call me Shirley Sep 2014 #8

Sweden outlawed spanking in 1979 Ichingcarpenter Sep 2014 #6

the research on people intruding into other's private lives is clear Android3.14 Sep 2014 #9

Yet ... because of the behavior igonarnce of the parents Ichingcarpenter Sep 2014 #10

"family secrets" H2O Man Sep 2014 #11

I have a sardonic sense of irony Ichingcarpenter Sep 2014 #12

I figured that H2O Man Sep 2014 #15

+1 far too many parents view children as a disposable piece of property.... LiberalLoner Sep 2014 #18

I imagine many half-wits believe empirical research is also intrusive... LanternWaste Sep 2014 #13

Well it is an interesting debate on Ichingcarpenter Sep 2014 #16

It's already been tried kcr Sep 2014 #24

Here's a thought, though. Verbal assault does the same thing. nolabear Sep 2014 #17

Given all the evidence why is it so easy for some experts to appear on TV Johonny Sep 2014 #14

K&R Terra Alta Sep 2014 #19

What about emotional/psychological abuse? oberliner Sep 2014 #21

It can be. laundry_queen Sep 2014 #23

absolutely. cali Sep 2014 #26

it is a shame that this sort of information has to keep being niyad Sep 2014 #27