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[Christopher Rhoades Dÿkema]

Having spent most of my adult life in child abuse work of one sort or another, I
am completely convinced that physical punishment of children is unalloyedly
destructive as a social phenomenon, even when one can point to instances where
it did not harm. To legitimate it is to legitimate the conditions which make
abuse possible, with many reverberating negative effects.

Christopher Rhoades Dÿkema

joanna bujes wrote:


> At 10:57 AM 06/04/2001 -0400, you wrote:
> >There is nothing wrong with a working class parent
> >physically punishing his/her child for disrespect,
>
> Why not? Also, notice your choice of words: the working class parent
> "physically punishes"; the middle class parent "beats"....
>
> >but there is everything
> >wrong with a middle class dad endowing his child with all the gadgets money
> >can buy and then secretly beating him/her for disobedience.
>
> Why?
>
> If beating children is OK, why is it OK for the working class but not for
> the middle class?
>
> Joanna B.