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Indiana Senate ponders parental control
Huntington Examiner ^
| 11/02/2009
| Mark Shoffner
Posted on 11/02/2009 6:01:38 AM PST by mshoffner
Decades ago, the parents in Indiana would take an unruly child out behind the proverbial woodshed and give them an attitude adjustment. Many, were the children of ages past that learned discipline from a switch or the hand. Then came the progressive attitude. The attitude that placed.....
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Politics/Elections; US: Indiana
KEYWORDS: corporalpunishment; parent; spank; youth
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posted on
11/02/2009 6:01:39 AM PST
by
mshoffner
To: mshoffner
Now the Indiana Senate has proposed SB205, http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2009/IN/IN0205.1.html now in committee. It allows the parent, to once again, correct a child's behavior with corporal punishment. It does place rules so that a parent doesn't go overboard and endanger the child. But they have seen the need to allow parent's rule over their child without fear of from Child Protective Services.
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posted on
11/02/2009 6:04:59 AM PST
by
TaxPayer2000
(The United States shall guarantee to every state in this union a republican form of government,)
To: TaxPayer2000
What a concept! A return to basics and some good, old fashioned common sense. I remember a few “attitude adjustments” growing up and was/am the better for it...later in life. Seems the older I get, the smarter my parents were.
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posted on
11/02/2009 6:29:34 AM PST
by
Muddy168
(Go Navy!! Beat Army...again, and again, and again...)
To: Muddy168
Our grandson has some real behavior problems that we blame on his mother (she has visitation rights.) He needs his fanny fanned and he would straighten up big time. We live in Indiana too.
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posted on
11/02/2009 7:14:27 AM PST
by
raisincane
(Dims think we're all oblivious to the obvious)
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