The Apologists

The best studies are in fact the ones least done, because they are so
unwaveringly decisive. We don't need to keep doing them over and over
again to get the message.

Those are the ones on the mentally ill, the sociopaths, the prisons
populations.

And, of course, the thousands upon thousands of children that pass into
the child protection agencies each year, injured, and disabled
emotionally and physically from the same ignorance that prevails in the
use of pain and humiliation disquised as parenting.

Each of these is a living study in outcomes.

Kane

On Tue, 25 Oct 2005, Carlson LaVonne wrote:



wrote:
I suppose spankers are willing to risk their children without giving
sufficient thought to possible unwanted outcomes, and most assuredely
apologists are willing to risk other people's children.

Many spankers do not believe they are placing their children at risk for
possible unwanted outcomes. In fact, I have met individuals who truly
believe they are placing their children at risk for "naughty,
disobedient, and out of control behavior" if they don't spank them.

You meant like your parents, LaVonne? ;-)

Doan