We stil haven't gotten over it.........

An interesting take on child rearing brutality in the past and present.


(Caution. The article uses explicite language to describe many of the
abuses, sexual, physical, and emotional, of children.)

"... Reformers during the nineteenth century tried to bring the rest of
society into the socializing mode by legislation designed to prevent
outright battering and sexual abuse of children, which of course still
went on in the majority of families around them. But those who tried to
oppose buggering and beating boys in schools were opposed by parents
who said "It didn't hurt me." Those who tried to pass child labor
legislation to reduce horrendous working conditions and hours were
labeled Communists. And those who thought one could bring up children
kindly were considered impractical visionaries ... "

http://www.psychohistory.com/htm/05_history.html