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Sweden. Well, did it?



 
 
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Old November 3rd 05, 04:55 AM
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Default Sweden. Well, did it?

The claim, by some Christianity motivated "researchers," such as
Lazrlere, is that child abuse went up in Sweden after the spanking ban.


The question should have been, did PARENTAL abuse of children go up?

Here's a thought:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/q...&dopt=Abstract

"... METHOD: All police reports on physical child abuse (0-14 years
old) in a designated police district in Sweden during 1986-1996 were
examined, as well as any judicial proceedings that followed. RESULTS:
Our research yielded three major findings. Firstly, a large part of the
increased number of police reports had to do with violence outside the
family ... "

Woops spankers...woops!

See that last sentence.

Sweden is a country that is largely contiguous in culture from end to
end. What is likely to happen in one area is in another as well.

So if the data our esteemed "researchers" are using is limited to
"physical child abuse" but does NOT differentiate from outside the
family to inside the family ties to the spanking ban don't equate with
a parental increase in abuse of children.

Now if they can come up with proof that parents were the ones doing all
that extra child abuse.

Of course, if you read this report you'll see much the same thing that
you do in this country when it comes to the demographic and associates
with abuse.

The increase may have NOTHING to do with the ban, and great deal to do
with other factors.

On of the carefully avoided bits of information by the disinformation
specialists when discussing Sweden was that corporal punishment that
left marks or injuries was outlawed in 1957. The 79 law was nothing
more than a continuation of a trend starting right after WWII.

I presume the example of Nazi Germany and the propensity for Germans to
beat their children for discipline had a profound effect on thoughtful
Swedes, who up until then had the same habit.


...Then there's that claim that Sweden's youth are out of control and
more violent....and of course the desire is to lay blame on the
spanking ban.

Senseless Cargo Cult thinking.

Here's the truth:

http://www.aboutkidshealth.ca/ofhc/news/Other/3679.asp
"...Participation in any fighting, frequency of fighting, injuries
sustained in fights, and frequency of weapon carrying were very similar
across all five countries. Although there were not significant
differences in the other indicators of violence across the countries,
there was a consistent ordering of countries, with the lowest levels of
violence in Portugal and Sweden, and the highest in Ireland and Israel.
Rates of bullying varied, with Sweden reporting the lowest frequency of
bullying (14.8%), and Israel the highest (42.9%). Rank ordering of
countries also differed on bullying...."

This is from a report dated June 2004. I guess about the time a whole
lot of unspanked Swedish children are hitting their teens.

The nonsense that flows from the pro spank crowd never ceases to amaze.


But the cleverness and dedication they bring to their disinformation is
an old story for the fundamentalist thinkers, from Dodson to the
Pearls.

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