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For a detailed look at what the U.S. and world were like a few decades ago in terms of corporal punishment and opposition to it, check out this collection:
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"That was a trial. I was found not guilty and exonerated of all the charges."
Well, thank God
@AlabamaStateBar
held him to account.
@Andrea_WPMI
@mynbc15
@daleofloxley
@Corypenn
@TH4thepeople
@samjonesalabama
@vivian_figures
@AlaSchoolBoards
@PCAAlabama
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@derrelldurrett
@jbouie
"...'parents’ rights'...the term of choice for the conservative effort to ban books, censor school curriculums and suppress politically undesirable forms of knowledge."
Though when it comes to issues obliquely signaled by this phrase, the undisputed OG is corporal punishment.
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“The vague nature…lack of statutory definition of ‘reasonable punishment,’ makes it extremely challenging to talk to families about what the rules are around physical punishment of children [thus] difficult to speak in [their children’s] best interests.”
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"Anyone who secretly enjoys the administration of corporal punishment should not be the one to implement it."
OK so we just need to identify those who secretly enjoy it. Piece of cake!
@DrJamesCDobson
@DrJamesDobsonFT
@focusfamily
@fotfcanada
@swordsjew
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@AdvocatesTweets
@HuffPost
"For some predators, spanking serves as a grooming technique to erode boundaries and/or intimidate a child, paving the way for more clear-cut violations."
@hlynn_huggins
@nprscottsimon
@LeeVGaines
@llmiller12
@wfyi
@OPB
@NPRWeekend
@montclairstateu
@HHSGov
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This juxtaposition in a family newspaper from 1970 is startling, even if it wasn't deliberate.
The bigger question is why 50 years later the sexual implications of spanking are still unreflected in child protection laws and CSA literature.
@sheilagregoire
@JillianKeenan
@nberlat
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"It is unclear who 'certified' spanking personnel would be. Will they undergo spanking training or have a spanking test they have to pass? Will it be a written exam or will the administrators be tested by spanking each other?"
@baptist_news
@rickpidcock
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"...if a child came to school with those injuries...school personnel would be legally obligated to report suspected abuse in the home...However, when a child comes home *from* school with such injuries...this violence...is sanctioned by the state."
@hrw
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"You should not be hitting your child at all, but you definitely should not be letting a man who actively wants to spank your child do it. That is a predator."
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Olivier Maurel is one of the world's leading advocates for non-violent discipline of children. His correspondence with neuroscientist Antonio Damasio (
@damasiousc
) concerning the effects of physical punishment on brain development can be read at
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(From 2013)
"There are regions of this country . . . where the practice of corporal punishment is culturally more accepted. Those are the same places where rates of crime, gun ownership and incarceration are highest . . ."
@huffpostparents
@lisabelkin
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@Jeff_Warren
@nytimes
@nytdavidbrooks
@ThabitiAnyabwil
@DavidAFrench
@drmoore
@kkdumez
@BethMooreLPM
@timkellernyc
Brooks mentions sex abuse scandals, but generally overlooked is the widespread physical abuse in evangelical communities, which has led countless victims to apostasy (as well as some sympathetic observers).
@DearChristianPC
@CTmagazine
@chfriendlyfaith
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"The authorities have also outlawed corporal punishment in schools and ramped up investment in education..."
@nytimes
@NickKristof
1/
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"There never was a time when a major social problem was solved by beating a child. And there never will be such a time." -- C. Everett Koop
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"The definition of sexual abuse, according to the school's counseling curriculum, is any touching on an area of the body that is covered by a bathing suit that makes a child uncomfortable."
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@SheriffIvey
OK but "tearing off ass cheeks" is best left in the past.
"I would like to relate a most disturbing incident that I experienced when I was a senior in high school in Florida...I never felt so ugly and sullied than after this experience..."
@ssaisorg
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Great column from Pakistan
“He claimed that students from affluent families could not handle physical punishment, while those from underprivileged backgrounds needed it to get things done.”
@NajamSoharwardi
@etribune
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@AdvocatesTweets
@HuffPost
"For some predators, spanking serves as a grooming technique to erode boundaries and/or intimidate a child, paving the way for more clear-cut violations."
@hlynn_huggins
@nprscottsimon
@LeeVGaines
@llmiller12
@wfyi
@OPB
@NPRWeekend
@montclairstateu
@HHSGov
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@jennycohn1
Not just political violence. And of course, not churches exclusively, not all churches, etc. Yet the distinctly moralistic framing of pain-infliction (notwithstanding Shawn Smith's "hot stove" metaphor) has inspired many a terrorist.
@swordsjew
@dfrench
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"There’s a sexual element to corporal punishment that is difficult to confront. Society nearly admits as much when witnesses are required for female students to be spanked."
@sullydish
@JillianKeenan
@tasbnews
@AlaSchoolBoards
@NSBAPublicEd
@Jezebel
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Wow, this is the same county where 12 years ago another deputy, Robin Pagoria, was busted for tying naked kids to a bench and brutally spanking them with a paddle--and filming it to share with her online boyfriend in Australia (Christopher Lobban). 1/
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"Let’s get a sustained and public conversation going about this veiled form of sexual abuse. It's long overdue."
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"Some paddle wielders are sadistic . . . There are murky sado-sexual overtones to spanking that are imperfectly understood, yet not to be denied."
(The Palm Beach Post, 3/16/86)
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This is less surprising in light of
@LouisianaHouse
's vote last week not to ban physical punishment in schools.
Or considering that the state chapter of Prevent Child Abuse had to close up shop in 2019 for lack of funding.
@theadvocatebr
@Nola_Hilf
@KrisCangelosi
@PCAAmerica
BREAKING: A Louisiana Republican official has been arrested after witnesses say he physically abused a 4-year-old child.
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@therecount
Related:
"When he struck the boy the first time...[it was] so hard that the boy peed on the floor."
@kfor
@kiddocelf
@OKHouseofReps
@OKHouseNews
@OklaHouseDems
@OKHouseGOP
@ForrestBennett
@OKCFOX
@paytonnmay
@CamSpradling
@Victim_Law
@DisSouthRising
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@Mike_Mosley
@MattWalshBlog
If a child spanks one of his classmates, do school rules against hitting still apply?
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Child advocacy group to push for ban on using corporal punishment for disabled kids via
@theoklahoman_
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"I was not a juvenile delinquent, when I was caned on my hands. My offence? Failing to bring the right-sized needles for craftwork.”
@NikkiHaley
@UNChildRights1
@GIendcorpun
@OVEO_org
@hrw
@LiveLawIndia
@marcecko
#endcorporalpunishment
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Thank you
@DaisyFuentes
and
@richardmarx
for speaking out against cruelty to children under the banner of "school discipline."
@Annette_Taddeo
@PCAFlorida
[35:39]
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"...the victim made disclosures...about being repeatedly spanked when he was aged between 11 and 14.
[Owen] later took up a position working at schools and churches in the Caribbean...
'He had gone there because corporal punishment was accepted.'"
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“We’re in a small minority,” Aldrich said. “Texas, Arkansas, Alabama and Mississippi report more than 70% of all corporal punishment administered in America’s public schools.”
via
@arktimes
@TateAldrich
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When hurting children is normalized, it gives cover to child abuse.
"Pickell said a neighbor heard Dominick's plea for help. The boy repeatedly said, 'Mommy, make him stop; Mommy, make it stop.' The neighbor said he thought the boy was getting a spanking, the sheriff said."
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"Householder said she ran away from home while she was living at Agapé because her parents were beating her. When James Clemensen found out he told her: 'If they're spanking you, you must be doing something to deserve it.'"
via
@MailOnline
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@PattyMurray
@nytimes
School corporal punishment remains legal in 19 states. In some instances, you have male teachers, principals, or coaches smacking adolescent girls on the buttocks with a wooden paddle.
Does the continuation of this practice not undermine all that
#MeToo
stands for?
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@EricandFranky
@vafnord
@celebrikid
"...the authors...characterize child abuse as the act of an 'angry, uncontrolled parent.' While this is an accurate picture of many cases...also something of a stereotype. The more chilling reality is that a lot of child abuse is committed in a fairly calm and deliberate manner."
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Spanking, featured in Duggar family life, is apt to be an element of these crimes. Maybe used to break down victims' modesty. Maybe to intimidate them into complying and secrecy. Or maybe a sexual end in itself, à la Thomas Chantry (see reply link).
@ThouArtTheMan
@JillianKeenan
This man has 6 children, with a 7th on the way. This is as heart-rending as it is unsurprising.
Josh Duggar is in the position he is in because he was enabled and protected from consequences at every step by his revolting parents and their patriarchal, dehumanizing theology.
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@ScottTaylorTV
@ABC7News
@RAINN
"Justin, who was not sexually assaulted, remembers being paddled with his pants down by a school official."
By what criteria was that not a sexual assault?
…
@JillianKeenan
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@DrStaceyPatton
@Toure
"I mean, the world is going to show them that, you know, they hate them. That the world is a mean place. Your home should be a sanctuary. Your home should be a safe place, not a place where...your child has to be hyper-vigilant and looking around and...anticipating violence."
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"Hopefully, [Judge Cannon] has learned a lesson from the absolute spanking...conservatives on the 11th Circuit... gave her.." [26:43]
Don't think there's misogynist intent here, but given
#MeToo
can we retire this metaphor?
@BulwarkOnline
@lawfareblog
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“Citing figures collected by the Government Accountability Office that show black children are more likely to be disciplined, suspended and expelled than white children, O'Rourke vows to issue a federal ban on corporal punishment in schools . . .”
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So what happened with those 2018 child abuse charges? Was Randy Dickens indicted? Was there a trial? Plea bargain?
Sure hope the little boy he brutalized--who'd also been abused as an infant--is in a safe, loving home.
@FOXNashville
@wilsonsheriff
@TN_DCS
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"One teacher beat a seven-year-old with a black PVC pipe, resulting in serious head and psychological trauma. The teacher further threatened the pupil not to report the assault. The child later developed persistent headaches and needed emergency surgery."
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"I've found that highlighting the mere possibility that spanking is a sexual act for consenting adults only is . . . pretty damn effective at getting parents to reconsider their tactics."
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Lady, you'd probably be dramatic too if someone three times your size was fixing to whale on you.
Mom of Boy Who Begged Her to ‘Calm Down’ Amid Threats of a ‘Beating’ Says She’s Not Abusive (Watch)
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"I’m also working to ban corporal punishment in school at the federal level. How on Earth is it still legal to paddle or spank a student in 19 states?" -- Sen. Chris Murphy
@ChrisMurphyCT
@hartfordcourant
@TheNYRA
@CallaWalsh
@JohnBKing
@james_kitchin
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"Some people support corporal punishment in schools based on long-standing approaches to discipline. Simply because a policy was used more widely in the past, however, doesn’t mean it should continue."
@RepMcEachin
@RepBonamici
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Black parents beware: 5 harmful consequences of corporal punishment
Many cultures and communities should engage in thoughtful reflection.
@DrStaceyPatton
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"'So in the U.S. I can pull my child's pants down and beat their bare behind with a belt. But if...I were to pull [an adult's] pants down and beat them with a belt, I would likely be charged with sexual assault. Why?'
"Whoa!..."
@kaylajaidenn
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“While some adults hit children because they enjoy it [or] get overwhelmed, a third group…are hitting children because…authorities and leaders…are not just telling them to [but] instilling fear and terror [about] what will happen if [they don’t].”
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While Trump's alleged sexual antics may inspire late night comedy and memes, let's reflect soberly on the nonconsensual spanking of children and teens.
It's a custom too easily exploited.
For illustration:
@maryroeloffs
@Forbes
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"I do not know why he always beat the boys with their trousers down, but in the mellowness of middle age I cannot grudge him whatever small satisfaction he derived from the practice." - Auberon Waugh
@spectator
@Freddygray31
@MumsnetTowers
@GIendcorpun
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"My mom was a big believer in corporal punishment and severe 'Tiger Mom' parenting methods. I would never leave a kid with her unattended for even a few minutes."
via
@slate
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@lindyli
RE
@EricGreitens
:
"The damning report details several instances in which the woman...said he spanked, slapped or grabbed her..."
He also governed one of 19 states where students incl. high school girls can legally be spanked by male teachers.
#MeTooK12
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"No child deserves to be battered because extreme violence masquerades as discipline in our society." -
@gabriellehosein
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@ntilling
@ThomasWillett9
@DreyfusJames
Whether or not it's because of a fetish the legal safeguards are weak.
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@JillianKeenan
@DrRobertHamilt1
Doctor, please tell us what you advise for children with hemophilia.
Can they be safely spanked?
Should their parents just stick to non-physical discipline?
Or is there some alternative method of pain infliction you’d recommend?
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“The law pretends to define terms…Words like ‘torture’ and ‘intentional’ are not defined. There is no age cut-off. You may smack a 1 year old no less than a 15 year old.”
@PierreTristam
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"The rules surrounding schools are somewhat less permissive..." Yes and no. Teachers and coaches are allowed to physically punish kids with a degree of severity that would be grounds for CPS intervention if inflicted by a parent.
@FatherlyHQ
@ben_radding
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As we reckon with hostility toward people of Asian descent, let's note:
a) Asian schoolchildren are routinely made to line up and submit to physical punishment
b) Video travels fast around the globe
c) It's compiled for "entertainment."
Does this not undermine their humanity?
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"The overwhelming evidence...suggests that corporal punishment...is a major factor in generating the rage, aggression, and impulses for revenge that fuel the emotions, fantasies, and actions of individuals, mostly male, who become active delinquents or criminals."- Philip Greven
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Ryan Michelle Bathe Hopes Leaving Corporal Punishment B...
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“They’re raising him like a little white kid,” Ms. Martinez said on the recording. “I was like, this kid needs a beatdown. Let me take him around the corner, and then I’ll bring him back.”
@JillCowan
@ShawnHubler
@latinxparenting
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“Please, Pope Francis, make a proclamation condemning violence against children . . . so that no more will grow up to be tyrants, so that innocence is not profaned. So that children like these, newly born and holed up in a shelter, never have to fight for peace.”
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@therecount
@kfor
@kiddocelf
@OKHouseofReps
@OKHouseNews
@OklaHouseDems
@OKHouseGOP
@ForrestBennett
@OKCFOX
@paytonnmay
@CamSpradling
@Victim_Law
@DisSouthRising
Should be noted that this happened in Pittsburg County, which is in Randleman's district.
@CyndiMunson85
@talleyhouse33
@PCAAmerica
@IDA_CRPD_Forum
@DRI_advocacy
@DREDF
@Newsweek
@npr_ed
@educationweek
@JillianKeenan
@brianmrosenthal
@elizashapiro
@juliebosman
@McAlesterNews
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Horrible case from the early 80's. Both parents served only 10 months. And they would later try to "win back parental rights over their young daughter."
At least the cult leader didn't get off scot free. (See )
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". . . court proceedings in which a 9-year-old victim testified that he received spankings on a regular basis at Dunlap’s house. The boy told his father, who became upset after the boy further explained that the spankings involved removal of his outer and under garments."
They allege abuse decades ago in Boy Scouts. Now they’re suing, thanks to new California law
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My question for
@RepReneeEllmers
is different from most of Twitter right now:
Living in Dunn NC, where the infamous brutal paddling of three high school girls took place (), will you endorse
@RepMcEachin
and
@RepBonamici
's bill to ban corporal punishment?
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Citizens of
#Texas
, please support
@RepAllenTX131
's HB 772 to ban school corporal punishment.
@BetoORourke
@McConaughey
@TexProtects
@QuanahISD
"Photos Newschannel 6 obtained, show exactly why he couldn't sit down. Shades of red and purple covered his buttocks from only two paddles making simple things, like walking, unbearable."
@newschannel6now
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"...the fact that [
@lcmcisd
] had previously adopted a same-sex paddling rule...would seem to be a tacit recognition of the 'creepiness' factor in opposite-sex paddlings (as indicated by the mother of one of the girls who was paddled).
via
@bmtenterprise
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"Elizabeth Gershoff, co-author of a study into the effects of smacking, said in a 2017 statement that smacking children 'was not associated with more immediate or long-term compliance.'"
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@mike_salter
@Janbreck
@NoamPeleg
"Parental abusers...have constant access to their victims and almost total control over them."
They're also allowed to spank them. It's not only a form of violence to make them comply but also in some cases a form of sex abuse in itself.
@JillianKeenan
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"[My father] understood long before it became part of a teacher's training that psychology was important to maintaining a child's attention. Threats or imminent violence wasn't nearly so effective as just being a decent person and speaking to students as you would anyone else."
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"[
@markmiloscia
] has been the director of the Family Institute of Washington, where he has written...about the decline of 'traditional values.' Miloscia has argued that 'perverts' on the left are 'coming after our children'..."
The log in his eye:
@FPIW
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"Change is inevitable and much of it for the good...Corporal punishment has no place in schools."
@TNLookout
@jhollymc
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Sevierville is the birthplace of
@DollyParton
. If anyone could convince the
@SevierCounty
school system to end its use of school paddling, it's probably her!
Or at least to make some policy changes to better protect schoolchildren from excesses like this:
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“The courts have upheld…corporal punishment, so long as no serious or permanent injury is sustained.”
Bodily injury we should say. Serious or permanent psychological harm has no criminal liability per se. Maybe future brain imaging tech will change that?
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A woman ahead of her time:
"We do not think corporal punishment ought ever to be employed. It is only by kindness and affection that we can hope to influence our scholars . . . Love is the power by which we must work."
- Victorine du Pont,
Delaware schoolmistress (1792-1861)
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@JustAndrewPHX
@JillianKeenan
@AdrianPeterson
People don't hesitate to use the word "beat" when it comes to rugs. Lots of children get "spanked" with a force and intensity comparable to that used in rug beating.
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From 2014:
"Americans are more informed about the psychology and cognitive development of kids; therefore we are able to move beyond corporal punishment to other effective forms of correction."
-
@DamisiFawole
@NCBI
@redandblack
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“When abused children hear that anger is the definitive sign of physical abuse, what they often absorb instead is a false and perilous corollary: that horrific assaults are not ‘child abuse’ when administered calmly and with evident premeditation.”
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"Singaporeans did not invent caning as a punishment; the British did. I dislike the paternalism it represents, but I’m not a Singaporean so it’s none of my business."
Uh, human rights?
Singapore tortures. If they used a knife instead of bamboo, maybe Adam would recognize that.
What the world gets wrong about Singapore, the small, economic powerhouse—and its response to the pandemic.
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Shared with permission of the writer, who asked their name be withheld:
* * * * *
When I was like 7 or 8 my school went on a field trip to a football game for a large Division 1 school. Me and a few of my friends, being immature boys, ran off from the group of students . . . 1/
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“To steal the pleasure of learning from children is shameful, a disgrace and a crime against them, the nation and God. It's one of the few crimes that are performed frequently in broad daylight, often with accomplices…”
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@jennycohn1
@RLStollar
Sen. Phil Gramm in '96 pledged into "take the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and throw it in the trash." He also cosponsored this:
Moms 4 Liberty is allied with FL sheriff Wayne Ivey.
@VICE
@theloniusly
@oveo
@lxpsy
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“After a video showed a mother screaming at and beating her son with a belt, parents began asking at what point the woman crossed the line.”
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“In an era when smacking children was widely regarded as legitimate and corporal punishment widespread in schools, my father did not smack, hit, or beat either of his children.”
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@HumboldtSchools
@JSunNews
@TEA_teachers
Today, fortunately, Humboldt City Board of Education's policy is a lot less vague:
"Corporal punishment shall not be used as a disciplinary measure in any school."
#progress
@JasonLPowell
@JohnBKing
@GovBillLee
@TSBA_News
@TNedu
@PCATennessee
@PCAAmerica
@usdoegov
@BetsyDeVosED
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