That is what I am seeing. Parents are saying one thing publicly and doing
something else privately. This is EXACTLY how people survived in the old Soviet
empire before it collapsed of its own deadweight. They learned to lie to the
government and go about their business as usual. Not even an army of informers
and mountains of propaganda could prevent, for example, the practice of
religion. It is still around while the Evil Empire is in ruins.
Another factor which may well come into play is that children may become more
sophisticated. Right now, that is playing into the hands of the antispanking
zealots as kids like to get their parents in trouble. However, once the
disasters of CPS become widely known, children may begin to make different
choices.
After witnessing a few horror stories of kids who report being spanked and then
being bounced around from foster home to group home to foster home to wherever,
with minimal love and support, kids may just decide it is safer to get spanked
by a parent than rescued by the government.
observer wrote:
> After witnessing a few horror stories of kids who report being spanked and then
> being bounced around from foster home to group home to foster home to wherever,
> with minimal love and support, kids may just decide it is safer to get spanked
> by a parent than rescued by the government.
Just to clear up the above lie, children are not placed in foster homes due to
parental spanking. I advocate for better training of foster care workers and
better screening and compensation for foster parents. I suspect you would support
this, since you seem to abhor the "horror stories" of foster care. Do you also
abhor the "horror stories" of children raised by "natural" parents?
How sad that you would think a child should have to decide between a bad foster
home and a bad home with "natural parents." Kind of tough for that two, three, or
four year old to make that decision. Kind of tough for any child to make that
decision. Fortunately, little children do not have to decide.
Oops, I forgot. You couldn't parent without hitting your children in the name of
discipline. You tried other methods and you lacked the skills to make them work.
LaVonne
Or, a 6-year-old to be FORCED to go to a bad public school.
Thanks observer, you're great. No response. No reasonable rebuttal. Change the
subject (grin)!
LaVonne
No. I just pointed out bad choices are broader than your
educated-beyond-your-native-intelligence attitude supposed.