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Spanking for Truancy? On the limits of corporal punishment in juvie corrections

I don't get too worked up at parental spanking (or even by school officials and such), but my own parenting experience tells me there are limits to its effectiveness. I grew up in a household that used corporal punishment quite liberally and consider it a legitimate parenting technique when properly employed. But these two recent stories taken together makes me think the courts should not coerce parents into using it:Brownsville Justice of the Peace gives option of fines or corporal punishment by parents for truantsBoy dies after his parents tied him to a tree "because he was being disobedient and other disciplinary actions had failed"Parents who use corporal punishment walk a thin line between discipline and abuse when the tactic is used in anger, with excessive violence or with the aim of terrorizing the child...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on June 18, 2008 (boomark / email).