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Article: Spanking sparks debate among parents, experts
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- Post-Tribune (IN)
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- September 21, 2000
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Kelli Grissom's memories of being spanked as a young child are anything but morbid. Her description of a typical spanking at her house conjures an amusing domestic scene.
The announcement, "The dreaded spanking will occur at 6 p.m. in the living room, that's what the torture was," recalls Grissom, now a social worker and mother of an 18-month-old.
"It was more the dramatic buildup to the event of the spanking than the spanking itself" that was distressing. "It never was a thing done in anger. It was done calmly, it was very matter-of-fact."
She wasn't spanked after age 6. "My mom learned in a hurry that it was going to be more ...