In article , "Harold Burton"
writes:

"Robert Casey" wrote in message
...



Where did society get the mistaken impression that sex is bad, but
violence is OK?

Nuns in Catholic grammar school routinely used violence on the kids, but
would
sure be upset about anything vaguely about sex....

Is that really what we want to teach our children?

I wouldn't want to subject kids to the crap I had to endure in said
school.


When you get right down to it, except for a few shameful and widely
publicized exceptions, todays kids suffer from too little rather than too
much physical punishment.

I disagree! Beating children simply means the beater can't think of
a better way to deal with the kid.

It also teaches the kid at a very primeval level that violence is a
legitimate method of getting what you want from others.

Worst form of abuse for todays kids is to let'em grow
up with no self control or discipline. That was true in earlier generations,
too.

I agree 100%, except that I'd call it "neglect" rather than "abuse". And in
some cases neglect is worse because it tells the kid he's not worth bothering
with.

Look at Bill Clinton and, for that matter, the younger days of our current
President.

Not just the younger days, either.

Sometimes they grow out of it and sometimes they don't.

Exactly!

73 de Jim, N2EY