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On Mon, 29 Mar 2004 20:32:28 -0800, Doan wrote: an attributed from an earlier post of his own: Doan wrote: BTW, anybody want to discuss the Embry study? Sure, Droany. Lots of people might wish to discuss Embry if you proved you had it. No one wants your endless...

Doan enters the fray, and reaching for his trusty bludgeon, discovers all he has for the fight is: "Here is your chance to clarify it. Come on, Kane. Your problem is you spewed so much that you can't keep track. Tell that I am wrong in saying you were "never-spanked", Kane. Dare to take...

Let me help you out. Instead of having to crawfish and doing it badly with ad hom you could have bailed yourself out with flying colors, respect of the readers, respect for yourself, and if it matters, real respect from me. Here's how an actual recovery post would have looked. Kane, I've taken a...

On Thu, 4 Dec 2003 10:38:43 -0800, Doan wrote: And others may disagree with you! ;-) But then what happens to that "standard" in "reasonable standard," eh? Apparently you wish to refute yourself rather than refute me. If one is to have a "standard," one is stretching credulity...

There are numerous parallels between the justifications advanced in defense of slavery in the 19th century, and the justifications advanced in defense of spanking. Both proslavers and prospankers have claimed that God is on their side and that the Bible sanctions what they do. Prospankers like to...

Ignoramus15011 wrote: How would he a better person if I was beating him (the animal society way) instead of teaching him interaction according to modern principles of human society. Exactly. How would he be a better person if your were hitting him in the name of discipline? I can't think...

Subject: New Maine group probing DHS formed From: (Fern5827) Date: 2/16/2004 2:09 PM Eastern Standard Time Message-id: Maine Alliance for DHS accountability and reform. Mary Callahan. Author of "Memoirs of a baby stealer."

What an interesting flurry of activity captured by my firewall...not the honey pot one, the real one. And all my files are sig stamped invisibly too, with my own personal copyright. Tsk Tsk Tsk... Sure hope nobody gets in trouble.

Recherche parents pour echange info, trucs, etc.... avons trois enfants. merci

Kane (the atheist) wrote Where's Jesus when we need him? Surely he could either endow CPS with more workers, or give superhuman powers to the short staff now employed there.

On 7 Apr 2004 12:53:51 -0700, (Greg Hanson) wrote: Now back to the question: What's this about spanking breeding passivity? Among other things. Even non-CP punishment can do that. The child looks too much to the parent for direction. It's an avoidance reaction.

On Tue, 07 Sep 2004 11:00:47 -0400, "cdc0038" wrote: Fern- This reminds me of the case a few years back here in TX when the mother of a girl who instigated a fight on campus sued the teacher who broke up the fight. Just a reminder of the need for "reasonable force...

On Mon, 9 Feb 2004 15:30:40 -0800, Doan wrote: NOT!!!!!! Well, folks, you didn't really expect a compulsive, posting history proven, dodging weasal to actually do the simple thing of telling the truth, did you now? As Doan why he didn't, when he claimed to have the study before,...

A different slant on spanking By: Meyerhoff, Michael K Volume: 19 Number: 8 ISSN: 07306725 Publication Date: 01-01-2001 Page: 8 Type: Periodical Language: English Perspectives on Parenting If you are an alert parent, you probably have surmised that professionals in the field of psychology have...

On 07 Oct 2004 16:22:04 GMT, (Fern5827) wrote: Lavonne, I urge you to stop your reckless and malcious LYING. Tsk. Such strong language. I have never lost, had taken, was cited or was TPR'd by CPS for any of my children.

NSP is such a gutless dork pushing Riak's propaganda that they've got to be anonymous. It's either Riak himself or that lying skank Don Fisher. It's a socialist agenda.

On 26-Mar-2004, "R. Steve Walz" wrote: You see, you **** can keep lying forever, so we need to kill everyone even vaguely like you. That's the only cure for those who LIE about TRUTH and GOODNESS! Steve And we are to believe you have superior parenting skills? Since...

Yet parents are EXHORTED, under pain of reporting to CPS, to use alternative aversives. Gee, guess the disciplinarian inflicted *corporal punishment* for having unruly kids write sentences. Absurd.

Controversial church sues Rutherford County DSS WVEC.com (subscription), VA - Dec 10, 2003 .... In addition to the department, the lawsuit names as defendants county DSS director John Carroll, child protective services supervisor Lynn Hoppes and ... DESCRIPTORS; FAMILY LAW, PARENTAL RIGHTS,...