This one has you talking. At the mention of spanking, tongues start flapping. Put research and findings in the mix and conversation explodes. We heard your questions and your comments - and asked the author of a recent study on spanking to come in and share what her research suggests. Welcome psychology professor Marjorie Gunnoe to eightWest.
Spirit of the law or letter of the law?: The vast majority of professionals agree that child buttock-battering isn’t healthy. A marginal few (mostly religious fundamentalists as those at Calvin) think that child bottom-slapping is good. They use the same selective literalist interpretation of the Bible as was used to justify “witch”-burning, depraved torture methods for those accused of sin and heresy, slavery, racism, wife-beating, oppression of women and a host of other social ills.
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