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Paranoid parenting or how experts dictate parenting
Eminent British sociologist at the University of Kent, prolaims that parents
are besiged with propaganda from "the experts." Everyone is "at risk." Also, his commentary on spanking. http://www.spiked-online.com/Articles/0000000CA5D0.htm Frank Furendi. |
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Fern,
I'm not sure whether this individual is an "Eminent British sociologist" or not. He does appear to be a Sociology Professor at the University of Kent. A sociologist is not a child psychologist nor is a sociologist a researcher in the field of child development. In fact, it doesn't appear that he has done any research in child development. He didn't even bother with a methodologically sound meta-analysis. What he wrote is an editorial article, picking and choosing portions of the discussion sections of research and other articles that he could take out of context to make his point in support of spanking. This is an editorial, Fern. This is not research. This is not even accurately portrayed research done by others. You like these editorials that support your position that hitting little children in the name of discipline is non-violent, loving, and responsive parenting. What you need to do is read and understand the research, not just the decades of research on spanking and alternatives but also child development research on how children best learn, grow, and develop. If you would like to debate the article, let me know. I can point you to research that will refute this individual's claims and I can point you to research he attempts to include, where you can read studies in their entirety, rather than picking and choosing phrases out of context to support an insupportable position. LaVonne Fern5827 wrote: Eminent British sociologist at the University of Kent, prolaims that parents are besiged with propaganda from "the experts." Everyone is "at risk." Also, his commentary on spanking. http://www.spiked-online.com/Articles/0000000CA5D0.htm Frank Furendi. |
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