Now there’s a headline I never expected to see in main stream media. I know this is hottly debated, but I’ll say one thing on the matter: I remember being spanked–once, and that’s all it took. And I must say also that I turned out just fine, thank you very much.
Foxnews.com
Young children spanked by their parents may grow up to be happier and more successful than those who have never been hit, a study has found.
According to the research, children spanked up to the age of 6 were likely as teenagers to perform better at school and were more likely to carry out volunteer work and to want to go to college than their peers who had never been physically disciplined.
But children who continued to be spanked into adolescence showed clear behavioral problems.
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November 24th, 2009
Betsy
Posted in ”No Left Turns” by Julie Ponzi
Irony is a funny thing . . . and sometimes irony is unavoidable. For Progressives who seek to deny the realities of low nature rather than taking them into account on the journey toward a more natural (in the higher sense) and just world, the irony often is that they end up embracing the low tyranny of nature’s grip on man. They think they are overcoming nature by denying it when, in fact, they only reaffirm their powerlessness in the face of it. They decry the “Cretan-like” and “backward” thinking of conservatives when, in fact, it is their way of thinking that points backward . . . way backward.
Jennifer Roback Morse helps to illustrate this phenomenon by taking to task a “story” that ripped through international headlines last week as it claimed to demonstrate that lesbian couples make better parents than heterosexual couples. As Roback Morse argues, the “story” amounted to a single (and fuzzy) quote from a lone conference participant at a meeting of the British think tank Demos during which they were discussing this report (a report which, by the way, does not at any point address the question of the relative merits of lesbian parents). Read more…
Categories: Babies, Children, Gay and Lesbian, Homosexuality, Jennifer Roback Morse, Parenting, Ruth Institute, family Tags: child rearing, gay adoption, Jennifer Roback Morse, lesbian, Ruth Institute
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