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From: joel@decwrl.UUCP (Joel McCormack)
Newsgroups: net.kids
Subject: Re: Spanking as a euphemism
Message-ID: <396@decwrl.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 30-Jan-85 18:09:44 EST
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Posted: Wed Jan 30 18:09:44 1985
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    Heh, you want to express an opinion about spanking, okay.  But I don't
like the holier-than-thou attitude in Jan Wolitzky's recent mail.  I haven't
seen ANY scientific studies that say spanking turns kids into axe-murderers.

    Equating spanking with the violence problems of the world is a little
like telling people who want to get an abortion that they are no better than
Nazis.  Growing kids up right is not yet a science.  To presume to KNOW as
much as Jan evidently does, and to be as intolerant of what I consider a
minor, but sometimes effective method of discipline, contributes more to
world problems than spanking.

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- Joel McCormack {ihnp4 decvax ucbvax allegra sequent utcsrgv}!decwrl!joel
		 joel@decwrl.arpa