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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]After reading through these forums and seeing the pride that so many take from hitting their children, I'm really curious about this.

You are hitting your children.  Why not own it?[/quote]

So they can sleep at night.  It's hitting, straight up.  If a spouse did it to them they'd be arrested[/quote]

If a spouse continually behaved in a manner that I didn't like, I'd probably divorce the spouse.  I can't divorce my kids.  I think it's stupid logic to equate children to adults.   One adult is not responsible for another adult; we don't have the same expectations of a child as we do an adult.  I don't teach my spouse how to behave or make him do his work.  I do all those things to my kids.

If I don't feed my spouse (unless incapacitated) I won't get arrested. I would get arrested if I didn't feed my child.  I won't get arrested if I don't make my spouse go to work; I would if I don't make my kid go to school.  I can go and on.    Just bad logic.[/quote]

Which is precisely the reason children should be protected from being hit.  They are helpless.  [/quote]

You must be the same poster on that other thread about spanking.  You've tried to use the same logic in that other thread.

Yes, kids are helpless to some degree, but kids also need to be disciplined.  For some kids, taking away privileges works fine; for others, it doesn't.  Every kid is different.  Until you've parented every child on this earth, I don't think you are in any position to mandate how people should parent.

I think most people understand the difference between abuse and spanking, and the PP said it best, when you equate spanking to abuse, you are belittling real abuse.  To equate a smack on the bottom of an 8 yr old with his clothes on with beating of a child with a bat is an insult to both kids.

Think about the case of the parent in Silver Spring who were investigated for child neglect for letting their kids walk home alone from the park.    What some called neglect, others called free-range parenting.  I think some parents have swung too far to the left in how kids should be treated and disciplined.  This is going to produce a generation of bratty kids who don't know how to deal when they things don't go their way.[/quote]

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