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In article <325B6ADD.34A7@worldnet.att.net>, corey reid
<coreyreid@worldnet.att.net> wrote:

> Twisted STISter wrote:
> > 
> > In article <53gpu6$rv1@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>,
> > Trish  <Trish@speedy.ehs.uiuc.edu> wrote:
> > >opdi@netshop.net (Alleycat) wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >   <SNIP>
> > >
> > >> People have to learn to let parents
> > >>discipline their own kids in the way THEY find most >effective.-- Alleycat

>  there are some things that are beyond parenting methods(spanking) and 
> sexual abuse.
> corey

I don't think anyone contends that sexual molestation is not nice.  But
spanking beyond (proper, or tolerable)  parenting methods?  What does this
mean?  The government intervenes and social services interferes with the
parenting relationship every time someone gets spanked?  If I had kids, I
imagine I wouldn't spank them.  But geez, if that were the standard of
physical abuse, government would be taking over tens of millions of
children.  

I mean, child abuse is an extremely serious problem, but throwing in every
disciplinary method that you, personally, wouldn't engage in only serves
to trivialize the matter.  In the same way that some absurd construction
of date rape, e.g. he said he'd respect me in the morning, trivializes the
serious problem of rape.

Jake Minas
Spanking "survivor"

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Jake Minas
Columbia Law School
jam81@columbia.edu