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Article: PARENTING: Anti-spanking zealots do disservice to children
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- Charleston Gazette
- Article date:
- February 6, 2007
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California assemblywoman Sally Lieber (D-San Francisco) has
proposed a law that would prohibit parental spanking of children
younger than 4. The law, not yet drafted, would make spanking a child
3 and younger a crime punishable by a fine and/or jail time.
"I think it's pretty hard to argue you need to beat a child 3
years old or younger," said Lieber.
I agree with that. In fact, I'll expand that to include any age
child. But of course Lieber is using "beat" to mean any swat to a
child's rear parts, and in so doing she is revealing a predilection
for emotional hyperactivity, the province of the demagogue.
Every state in the Union prohibits the beating of children. To
make the claim that a ...