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From: sed408@ihlpg.UUCP (s. dugan)
Newsgroups: net.kids
Subject: Discipline
Message-ID: <1226@ihlpg.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 11-Sep-85 14:04:00 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep 11 14:04:00 1985
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The current discussions about corporal punishment have reminded me of a
project I did in college.  I was taking developmental psychology and had to
write a term paper.  The term paper was about juvenile delinquency.  I learned
some pretty interesting things about the profile of a "typical" juvenile
delinquent.  There seemed to be very little correlation as to age, sex,
socio-economic background or FORM of DISCIPLINE in the home.  THE ONLY REAL
CORRELATION WAS THAT THE CHILD HAD EITHER ***INCONSISTENT*** OR
***NON-EXISTENT*** DISCIPLINE IN THE HOME.

All the material I read stressed that inconsistent discipline was as bad, if
not worse than non-existent discipline.  It even went as far as to say that
children who were harshly and physically disciplined (as long as the
discipline was consistent) were better off than the children who had
inconsistent/non-existent discipline.

I just thought I'd throw this up for thought/discussion.


-- 

Sarah E. Dugan
"You have to kiss a lot of frogs
before you find a prince."

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