Comments on: Massachusetts to Debate Spanking Ban

By: gary s.

gary s. — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 22:24:22 +0000

spare the rod, spoil the child

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Fri, 30 Nov 2007 21:17:06 +0000

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By: Ron Simpson

Ron Simpson — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 16:56:25 +0000

“The right to hit should never be the right to hurt”
What a crock. The whole idea of spanking is to hurt a little. It should be, ” the right to discipline shoud never mean the right to injure or damage”. This should include psychological abuse as well.

By: kevino

kevino — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 15:03:10 +0000

RE: “The right to hit should never be the right to hurt.”

What an idiot. First of all, parents can hurt their children in a number of ways without laying a hand on them, and the damage that is done is much more severe than spanking. Secondly, I can’t believe that the People’s Republic of Mass in general, and Child and Family Services in particular, doesn’t have anything better to do than enforce this kind of crap.

RE: “Are they going to start legislating that you can’t raise your voice to your kids? That you can’t tell them when to go to bed? We’ll be communists then.”

Too late. You’re pretty much communists now.
And NH is racing to catch up.

mpinkeyes is 100% correct: The other critical issue is that pinheads running MA government seem to think that they need to step in to tell everyone else the difference between discipline and child abuse and to set limits for them because the average person won’t be able to figure it out for themselves.

Do they really believe that the public is that stupid?
Of course, given the fact that the people in MA continue to vote for the same Democrats year-after-year, the answer is: “Yes. They probably ARE that stupid.”

It takes a village to raise a child.
They are the village; you are the child.

By: mpinkeyes

mpinkeyes — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 00:37:23 +0000

That’s the issue here, a slap on the butt is one thing, beating a child on the butt until he can’t sit down is another. Massachusetts evidentally doesn’t believe a parent knows the difference, so they must tell them.

By: arclightzero

arclightzero — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 19:58:09 +0000

It is sad. Interestingly the Minnesota court of appeals recently said that spanking wasn’t child abuse. I think that there is a big difference between spanking and walloping your child. Leaving deep bruises on your kids but is excessive. But a little bit of corporal punishment to show your kids that you mean business is an effective tool. Those of us who were spanked as kids know that. There was no greater fear than “just wait until your father gets home.”

It wasn’t child abuse then, it isn’t child abuse now!

By: mrgreyghost

mrgreyghost — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:17:42 +0000

This is amazing and sad at the same time.

By: GUYK

GUYK — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:01:41 +0000

I figure that if Teddy Kennedy had of had his butt kicked when he was a kid there would be a girl alive right now…one might say that spanking saves lives!