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While this story has been reported in many places on the internet, this one from a LIEberal MSM site is notable for its typical whining and deliberate attacks on Christian Southern states that are at least making some effort to comply with Biblical Law before God completely destroys America.
What's surprising is that this new legislation was introduced by a female DEMONcrat (and a nigra). Is this the beginnings of a nascent Biblical Renaissance that will turn back the dark forces of Obama? Stay tuned.
What's surprising is that this new legislation was introduced by a female DEMONcrat (and a nigra). Is this the beginnings of a nascent Biblical Renaissance that will turn back the dark forces of Obama? Stay tuned.
What's the Matter With Kansas? The Spanking Edition.
By Katy Waldman
A Kansas lawmaker has introduced a bill allowing parents, caregivers, and school officials to give harder spankings. The Sunflower State is already one of 20 (mostly Southern) states in which children can be hit as long as no mark or bruise remains afterward, but this proposed law would protect adults who strike kids forcefully enough to cause redness or discoloration. The woman behind the measure is Wichita’s Gail Finney, a Democrat and mother of three sons. She outlined her objectives for the Wichita Eagle: to define corporal punishment for the judicial system, to restore parental rights, and to shield old-school disciplinarians from child abuse charges. “What’s happening is there are some children that are very defiant and they’re not minding their parents, they’re not minding school personnel,” Finney said. Even with “a small amount of a bruise, a parent could still be charged with child abuse when it wasn’t anything serious.”
So what counts as not “anything serious?” While it would still be illegal in Kansas to hit a kid on the head or body, with a belt, switch, or a closed fist, the bill would license “up to ten forceful applications in succession of a bare, open-hand palm against the clothed buttocks of a child.” It also seeks to permit “any such reasonable physical force … as may be necessary to hold, restrain or control the child in the course of maintaining authority over the child, acknowledging that redness or bruising may occur on the tender skin of a child as a result.”
If you’re not persuaded that this is ethically wrong, consider the practical argument: study after study shows that spanking doesn’t work. It only makes kids more aggressive. Bonnie Rochman has a sobering rundown of spanking’s ill affects in Time:
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By Katy Waldman
A Kansas lawmaker has introduced a bill allowing parents, caregivers, and school officials to give harder spankings. The Sunflower State is already one of 20 (mostly Southern) states in which children can be hit as long as no mark or bruise remains afterward, but this proposed law would protect adults who strike kids forcefully enough to cause redness or discoloration. The woman behind the measure is Wichita’s Gail Finney, a Democrat and mother of three sons. She outlined her objectives for the Wichita Eagle: to define corporal punishment for the judicial system, to restore parental rights, and to shield old-school disciplinarians from child abuse charges. “What’s happening is there are some children that are very defiant and they’re not minding their parents, they’re not minding school personnel,” Finney said. Even with “a small amount of a bruise, a parent could still be charged with child abuse when it wasn’t anything serious.”
So what counts as not “anything serious?” While it would still be illegal in Kansas to hit a kid on the head or body, with a belt, switch, or a closed fist, the bill would license “up to ten forceful applications in succession of a bare, open-hand palm against the clothed buttocks of a child.” It also seeks to permit “any such reasonable physical force … as may be necessary to hold, restrain or control the child in the course of maintaining authority over the child, acknowledging that redness or bruising may occur on the tender skin of a child as a result.”
If you’re not persuaded that this is ethically wrong, consider the practical argument: study after study shows that spanking doesn’t work. It only makes kids more aggressive. Bonnie Rochman has a sobering rundown of spanking’s ill affects in Time:
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