Fern5827 wrote:

8) Are discussions about Child Protective Services on topic on a.p.s.?

Absolutely! Since Children's Protective Services, by whatever local name they
go by, deal with issues of child abuse and since several extreme position
posters continue to claim that all spanking is child abuse, even that which
is clearly legal in all fifty states of the union, the discussion of CPS is
entirely on topic, because people should be entirely aware of what exactly
they are doing and causing if they report someone to one of these agencies.

However, many of your posts have absolutely nothing to do with spanking, and are
nothing but rants against CPS. These posts belong on
alt.support.child-protective-services.

Another newsgroup specifically about CPS is alt.support.child-protective-
services, and posts can be made there as well, but since the world is not as
ultracompartmentalized as some would wish it to be, such posts are also on
topic in a.p.s.

Posts discussing spanking are appropriate on alt.parenting.spanking. Posts that
have nothing to do with spanking and alternative forms of discipline but have the
sole purpose to rant about CPS belong on alt.support.child-protective-services.

Those who object most strenuously to posts in the newsgroup about CPS are those
who tend to advocate or play apologist for those agencies and do not wish the
general public to know the truth about these agencies.

This ng I am posting from is alt.parenting.spanking. The purpose of this ng is to
discuss spanking as a disciplinary method and disciplinary alternatives. I have
cross-posted this to alt.support.child-protective-services. Fern's posts thar
have nothing to do with spanking children but only with her perceived CPS abuses
need to be posted to the CPS ng.

LaVonne