Posts by jh
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Missing the ability to see what the unwashed could see. Nature makes us different for good reason, but some people have their brains skewed too far to in one direction (or another).
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Compares occasional light smacking of children with "hitting women".
Some of you will never get it because you are part of the problem, not the solution. I can see a study like this being as welcome as a pork chop in a synagogue. Bringing it up wouldn't be a good career move in some government departments, where decisions are ideologically driven.
If Millichamps study is right; the people were right, and you people are..well............ missing something
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"I have looked at just about every study I can lay my hands on, and there are thousands, and I have not found any evidence that an occasional mild smack with an open hand on the clothed behind or the leg or hand is harmful or instils violence in kids," she said.
"I know that is not a popular thing to say, but it is certainly the case.
"The more honest researchers have said, let's be honest, we all wish we could say it's all very clear and that no parent should ever lift a finger on a child - although I think that is totally unrealistic as a single parent myself - but the big problem is that a lot of the studies have lumped a whole lot of forms of physical punishment together."
Dr Millichamp said the Dunedin study so far found no evidence of the "slippery slope" theory - that parents who started off smacking often progressed to abusive punishments.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1/story.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10404809