More on Spanking

Posted on February 23, 2007 by Mark Jakubik

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 [...]

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California Legislator Proposes Ban on Spanking

Posted on January 22, 2007 by Mark Jakubik

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 - [...]

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