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The Truth, and the Lies about Sweden
The reaction of the pro spanking compulsives, while predictable is
reaching the proportions of the creature in the movie Alien. Such trashing about and screeching is a laughable spectacle. In the midst of it of course is both outright lying, and careful citation of cherrypicked words or data taken out of context. Reality is ignored. Appeals to authority, whose work has repeatedly been shown to be suspect and loaded with pro spanker bias, is the order of the day. One of the most frequent claims? The rising crime rate in Sweden. And trying to link it to not spanking children to discipline them. So much for the lies. Let's take a look at the proof. http://www.stophitting.com/disathome...2005v1Iss9.pdf "... It is a well-known fact that when mandatory reporting laws, public education campaigns, and other measures are implemented to increase awareness, reporting will increase. This is the goal of such measures. The Swedish reporting figures have been cited as if they are actual rates of abuse, which they are not. Recently the Swedish National Crime Prevention Council examined 434 cases of assaults on young children within the family that were reported to the police in 1990 (all cases) and 1997 (every other case). It was found that the proportion of cases involving serious injuries sustained by children in this age range had decreased substantially. The majority of reported assaults result in minor injuries or no injuries at all. On the basis of an extensive analysis of the data, the National Crime Prevention Council concluded that There has been an increase in the propensity to report cases of assault on young children, and that it is this increase that is responsible for most, if not all, of the rise in the number of such offenses reported to the police@ (Nilsson, 2000, p. 68). ..." Which of course addresses the "child abuse went up" lie. But what of actual crime other than parental spanking? That monumental lie? Read it and weep stupid liars: "Sixty-six percent of adults believe that the percentage of teens who commit violent crimes has increased over the past ten years and another 25 percent believe that it has remained the same, while only five percent believe that it has decreased." "In fact, government statistics show that the violence crime rate among teens has reached its lowest recorded level in more than 25 years; between l990 and 2000, the juvenile crime declined by 56 percent." (Child Trends Research Brief, July 2003) " So where DO they get their figures for rising crime? Out of the general population, which deserves to be examined more closely. Why would crime be going up there (and in many European countries)? Our own State department on travel to Sweden by Americans: http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_p.../cis_1032.html " ... CRIME: Sweden has a relatively low crime rate with rare, but increasing, instances of violent crime. Most crimes involve the theft of personal property from cars or residences or in public areas. Pickpockets and purse-snatchers often work in pairs or groups with one distracting the victim while another grabs valuables. Often they operate in or near major tourist attractions like Stockholm's Old Town, restaurants, amusement parks, museums, bars, buses, and subway trains. Hotel breakfast rooms and lobbies attract professional, well-dressed thieves who blend in with guests and target purses and briefcases left unguarded by unsuspecting tourists and business travelers. Valuables should not be left unguarded in parked vehicles. ...." Where's the violent crime? Apparently there is some violent crime. Rape is claimed to have gone way up. Why? Failure to spank, or something else? 0:- Could it be....................terrorism connected to those that have NOT been in the country that long and COME FROM ETHIC GROUPS THAT USE CP FREELY ON THEIR CHILDREN? http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatc...ves/003269.php All over Europe this is a problem and parenting methods are the real culprit, not Swedens spanking ban. They can hardly have applied it before people come to their country, and they have NO support in those communities for reporting the use of CP. It isn't a spanking ban=crime problem. It's an immigration problem. But would the Spanking compulsives in their arguments bother to look for other possibilities? No, it has to be churchlady voice "THE SPANKING BAN." Odd, that the very population that has benefited by it show LOWERED crime rates according to the government, but overall crime is up where IMMIGRANTS WHO WON'T OBEY THE SPANKING BAN ARE COUNTED INTO THE POPULATION. The Pro Spanking desperation is obvious. As more and more people accept and embrace non-spanking as a way of child rearing, and more and more governments ban it, and more and more severely restrict it's use, and more and more schools in our country ban paddling, these people are going out of their mind...rather than take a careful look at the data and figure out the truth. We have a thousand year old lie to deal with here. The belief that spanking works. Kane |
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