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In reply to the discussion: Headline: ...The Duggar Discipline Method: "They Have a Rod" [View all]countryjake
(8,554 posts)14. Actually, some of the wives get "spankings", too.
It all depends on how far a family chooses to uphold their extreme fundamentalist belief. In Christian Domestic Discipline, the patriarch is also required to discipline his wife if she is rebellious or disobedient.
I don't know if this is also a part of being Duggared, but we had some fanatic fundamentalists here in the Pacific Northwest who used methods from the Pearl's how-to manual on child abuse and during the trial in which both parents were eventually convicted of abusing their adopted little girl to death, part of the wife's defense was that she had been subjected to "punishment" by her husband, too.
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i think they made him that way too! that's why it's so disgusting TLC had this show on!
nashville_brook
May 2015
#7
I admit I'm prejudiced. I think CDD now whenever I hear, "good religious family"
countryjake
May 2015
#20
Not only endured, but as the eldest son, the burden of carrying on was on his shoulders.
libdem4life
May 2015
#17
Well, that explains it! While he was suspended for a year, the discipline stopped.
KamaAina
May 2015
#26
If they raised their children as described, they need to be arrested and tried for abuse..sick stuff
Jefferson23
May 2015
#28
these infant/children whippers will probably start using electric shock soon for 'compliance'
Sunlei
May 2015
#39
Some definitions: Spank...with hand, sometimes on bare bottom. Switch...take a stwitch off a
libdem4life
May 2015
#42
If you don't beat your child into submission, you are "creating a Nazi"? Irony or real?
uppityperson
May 2015
#48