My sister is a pediatrician/psychiatrist, and an expert on child abuse.
She has described to me what is all-too-typical among people of non-pallor. They allow a child to disobey over and over and over and over—and then they beat the kid half to death. This even occurs in public places like restaurants and laundromats. Experts call it something like “discipline by terror.”
Spanking persists in the world not because it is smart, or that it works. It exists because adults are bigger than children.
Spanking appears to be one of those subjects that draw the morons and sadists on FR out of the woodwork.
Every day in the NYC papers there is a story of a child - usually a male - scalded to death in a bathtub for bad behavior. Al Sharpton certainly doesn’t care!
And, you’re right, nothing brings out kooks like this subject. The only other subject I can think of that brings out the kooks is the story of some poor lazy, disgusting, unintelligent slob without an engineering degree on Unemployment because of the Obama economy.
I totally agree with you