The problem is that in African-American society, corporal punishment means horrible abuse. Beatings of male children by single mothers create tremendous hatred towards women. During all my years in NYC, I was always shocked at how black mothers spoke to their young sons. You have to witness it to believe it.
Bill Cosby has been very good on this issue.
From the article, it seems as if this is also true in African society.
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.
you are right, I have heard a black mother say something like “I am going to break him”
also the idea in the black community that it is acceptable to beat kids with an extension cord really outrages me
I have considered purchasing a billboard with a picture of an electric cord and a four year old stating “it’s child abuse”