Frequently Asked Questions 1) What is "alt.parenting.spanking?" Alt.parenting.spanking is a newsgroup on Usenet. Usenet is a text based system of distributing postings in a group accessible format, which predates the more recent World Wide Web by many years. Some Usenet newsgroups are moderated,...

Fern, Where are your children. Fern5827 wrote: Not only children but families unjustly targeted by CPS and the *child abuse industry*. Courts are beginning to recognize this overreaction by government, and act to

When will these idiots ever learn? three rejected posts from soc.sexuality.spanking just showed up in my mailbox, one thing, I've never sent anything to soc.sexuality.spanking. It seems someone is trying to forge my signature, Again! I have never posted anything to that newsgroup and that...

The number one condition of any success in life, experts say, is the ability to have a burning desire for achievements. Have you heard this befo "First, you need to want it so much!" "You must want it badly!" "You need to have a great, burning desire to achieve this goal." Brian Tracy, one of...

I just wanted to thank everyone for the overwhelming response the book is getting. Over 40 people a day downloading it. Love stories are still good I suppose. As to the spanking part of it. I know I have many chapters including this. I hope it is of some value to parents in evaluating what they do...

http://parentnet.ywgc.com/ http://parentnet.ywgc.com/mom/momhastemper.html When Mom Has a Temper Tantrum Each month, my five-year-old son's kindergarten class compiles a "book of days" in which the children share their daily home experiences with one another. The next month, the book gets...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&foru m=102&topic_id=380271&mesg_id=380271 Unfounded child sexual abuse allegations.

SOOTHING GROWING PAINS WITH MATCHING GRANTS Behind the city's new steps to help foster children live on their own. By Adam F. Hutton http://www.citylimits.org/content/articles/viewarticle.cfm?article_id=3386&content_type=1&media_type=4 When kids who grow up in foster care "become adults,"...

So, Floribunda, how's tricks? I been meaning to ask. Are you waiting around for me to post from the archives your opinion on "spanking" and parent's rights to give their children over to the church to be strung up and paddled, or is LaVonne right about your attitude toward children? It would be...

i fell that children should only be spanked at the times where the child is putting themself into a dangerous situation.where many people spank for not following directions the first time given or not going to bed on time or not eating all their dinner.give some advise or feedback

Subject: HS parents protest home-school regs in DYFS failure From: (Fern5827) Date: 6/1/2004 2:37 PM Eastern Daylight Time Message-id: Families say home-school bill an intrusion, not a protection Philadelphia Inquirer (subscription),...

"When does the logical become illogical or vice versa?" was going to be among my next questions. Logic, like crime, is relative. So is *common sense* and a host of other concepts. As proven by differing attitudes in Minnesota and Oklahoma, the logic of time and place also defines when spanking...

When does the Child Protective System become abusive itself? Randy Johnson 05 Jul 2006 21:00 GMT http://www.indymedia.org/en/2006/07/841989.shtml Oregon Child Protective Services is violating US Constitutional Rights, as it sets out to protect our children from abuse. Oregon is not the...

When does an act become a crime? That's a simple enough question to answer, isn't it? Any takers?

Child's death 'work of the devil' A 7-year-old girl becomes Toronto's 39th homicide of the year Aug 04, 2008 09:45 AM Joanna Smith Staff Reporter Beverley Walker wiped away tears as she spoke about the heartbreak her

(Quoting another -- ) "James P. Comer, the Yale professor of psychiatry and the mind behind the Comer School Development Program, a highly successful model for transforming urban schools......." "Teachers and parents need to understand from the beginning that you don't yell at Johnny for doing...

Approximately 10 years ago this ng was created as a forum for parents and others to discuss spanking and alternatives to child corporal punishment. There was a time when great debate occurred on this ng, and a time when parents and others discussed child discipline and corporal punishment. This...

I am a 20 yo male from USA... Growing up as a kid I was often spanked with belts, paddleds, switches, and the hand usually on my bare bottom...Was that right or wrong? I also recieved smacks on the back of the head and my face untill it was beat red...wrong or right? I got puched, kicked,...

1st instance - "Crazy Joe," principal of Eastside High as seen in the movie Lean on Me, denies troublemakers their perceived right to take a standardized exam at the expense of disrupting school before exam time rolls around. 2nd instance - Educators from several states around the country...

Since it's almost Halloween, now is a good time to tell about the bogyman in the alt.parenting.spanking basement. What is it, you might ask, that is so frightening that it dare not see the light of day? What is so ghastly as to not be even allowed to be a skeleton in an upstairs closet? What is...

What's left to protect? http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/opinions/articles/0520sun1-20.html May. 20, 2007 12:00 AM Arizona's Child Protective Services uses unconvincing arguments to deflect public fears about the agency's ineptitude. By withholding information on the grounds of...