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Vicki

I'm sure most people know about the law proposed in Massachusets now. Here is an article. I'm curious to know what others think about this.

Spanking law won’t hit where it really hurts - BostonHerald.com

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sterbo

I vote no.
The article summed up the issue quite nicely and the salient point as far as I'm concerned is,

“If all this (bill) did was get more parents thinking about how they discipline their child,” Kaufman said, “that would be success as far as I’m concerned.”
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Jake

The government has no right to involve itself in the parenting of shildren. It's going way too far.

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pkster8235

There are better ways to discipline a child than by spanking him/her. Children need to be taught that it's never okay to put your hands on someone else, and spanking the child only contradicts this. Lead by example.

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Sofa King

My Brothers and I were all spanked as children and we all turned out to be pretty good people. We all still love our parents and I personally hold no ill will towards my parents for spanking me. Most of the stupid shit we did as kids we deserved to get spanked for. All this shit now a days, with time outs and naughty spots, is all well and good but sometimes kids do need some REAL discipline to get the message across. Spanking and abuse are two different things and sure some people take it a bit too far and thats a shame. Pricks that abuse their kids are going to do it whether it's legal or not. This law just penalizes good parents for trying to raise their kids. If we keep letting ignorant laws like this to keep happening, parents are going to start being arrested for raising their voice to their kids as well. Where does it stop.

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Vicki

That is my stance as well. There is a difference between spanking a child and physical abuse. I don't feel one bit guilty spanking my child's butt if she did something that merits it, and we don't spank unless it's a really serious thing.

Sofa King is absolutely correct. Where does it stop?

Hookahs

I totally agree with Sofa and Vicki.

My parents (dad) spanked us. Me quite a bit, when I was younger, and I have to say I deserved every last one of them. I basically turned out OK. A MJ charge or two, but I'm defintely not some hell raising criminal. I respect everyone (untill they give me reason not to) and treat them the same way I would want to be treated. Would I be the same if they didn't? Who knows, what I do know is that when they spanked us we deserved it and I have all the respect for them in the world to raise the 4 of us as well as they did.

Timeouts...thats kiddie stuff

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Lit_Match

I pretty much fully agree with Sofa King here. I was never beaten as a child but I got my ass popped on occasion. Seeing the way some kids act in the store and in public I'm glad I was raised the way I was. The way I see it, standing in the corner and time outs only go so far. Kids need to know where the line is drawn and a lot of them nowadays don't.

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Trocisp

Well, coming from a household where I've maybe been spanked two or three times in my life I can tell you there's no doubt in my mind that discipline can be administered without spanking or physical intervention. That doesn't mean it should be illegal, as I'm sure that there are cases where spanking is the only course of action that might work.

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chadwick

well so far this pole is looking pretty one sided, it shouldnt be illegal, its how you best teach right and wrong, associate something wrong with something bad like spanking, it works