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Generic Brad

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3. There's dignity in kicking a child in the ass?

Reply to trotsky (Original post)

Thu Feb 5, 2015, 10:08 PM

Feb 2015

If we don't leave marks it's ok? That's the most fucked up thing I have heard this week.

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Pope Says It's OK to Spank Kids, if Their Dignity Is Kept [View all] trotsky Feb 2015 OP

liking him less and less. marym625 Feb 2015 #1

I agree, as long as there a fine line kept between spanking and child abuse dissentient Feb 2015 #2

Do kids get spoiled like over ripe fruit? Cleita Feb 2015 #5

All I know is what I have observed and dissentient Feb 2015 #7

Is it respect or fear? Brickbat Feb 2015 #11

By using his authority as their father dissentient Feb 2015 #16

Do you think he'll still spank them when they're bigger than he is? Brickbat Feb 2015 #22

Nope dissentient Feb 2015 #23

Why that age? Brickbat Feb 2015 #24

It just seems like a good age range before kids become teens dissentient Feb 2015 #25

When you say "appropriate," what makes it "inappropriate" when they are teens? Brickbat Feb 2015 #43

When you say "appropriate," what makes it "inappropriate" when they are teens? Brickbat Feb 2015 #44

You have a friend who has kids. LiberalAndProud Feb 2015 #36

Ugh. n/t Jefferson23 Feb 2015 #9

Where is that line? Could you define "very often?" Should they be spanked on the ass, on the face, Brickbat Feb 2015 #10

so many questions dissentient Feb 2015 #15

Maybe spanking on the stomach is even more effective and we don't even know it. Brickbat Feb 2015 #21

so do you think it is okay for parents (the father, in your posts) to send a message to niyad Feb 2015 #19

Why, in your mind, are the only choices spanking or spoiling? laundry_queen Feb 2015 #30

I'm glad things worked out so well for your children, but dissentient Feb 2015 #31

Do you have kids? laundry_queen Feb 2015 #32

I can answer in this way dissentient Feb 2015 #33

Um. No. laundry_queen Feb 2015 #37

+1 LiberalLoner Feb 2015 #39

What does this mean, "fine line" as it relates to spanking and chld abuse and BreakfastClub Feb 2015 #35

There's dignity in kicking a child in the ass? Generic Brad Feb 2015 #3

He had me with the talk about income inequality and the poor. MohRokTah Feb 2015 #4

That was mostly PR, his predecessor was hugely unpopular but actually wrote and talked about Bluenorthwest Feb 2015 #12

This person and those of the clergy who have never been married nor Cleita Feb 2015 #6

That would involve consent. Brickbat Feb 2015 #8

Well, I'm glad that's settled pintobean Feb 2015 #13

Ah, yes, the go-to organziation on children and... Warren DeMontague Feb 2015 #14

Ooh, well done. n/t trotsky Feb 2015 #18

Would Jesus spank a child, Francis? nt SunSeeker Feb 2015 #17

so the woman-hating pope photo op sticks his foot in it again, eh? niyad Feb 2015 #20

"In the United States, parents can legally hit their child as long as the force is 'reasonable." rug Feb 2015 #26

There is a part of this that resonates with me caraher Feb 2015 #27

I appreciate when he breaks loose from traditional church doctrine, am very sad when he does not uppityperson Feb 2015 #28

I don't understand why his followers greyl Feb 2015 #34

What "traditional church doctrines" has he broken loose from? trotsky Feb 2015 #41

Shouldn't we be following what phil89 Feb 2015 #29

There is no dignity is searching for the branch that is going to be smacking Jamastiene Feb 2015 #38

RCC says flogging the bishop, however, is still verboten. Warren DeMontague Feb 2015 #40

And if the kid insults your mother? Punch him/her, right, Pontiff? PeaceNikki Feb 2015 #42