More on Spanking

Dr. Virginia Shiller, a licensed clinical psychologist who has commented here on the California spanking legislation, has offered further additional thoughts on this subject. I think that this issue is of sufficient importance, and that Dr. Shiller’s comments are especially interesting, that I will reproduce them in the body of this post. While I am [...]

A Psychologist’s View on the California Spanking Legislation

This was submitted as a comment to my earlier post on the California spanking legislation. I thought that it was sufficiently thought provoking to put up as a post. I have removed the identifying information. You can read my response to the comment below the fold:
I feel strongly that as a society we should use [...]

California Legislator Proposes Ban on Spanking

As has been widely reported (as here in the New York Times) a California state legislator has announced her intention to introduce legislation to make it unlawful to spank a child who is under 3 years old. I do not necessarily want to open a debate on the relative merits and demerits of spanking - [...]