Carlson LaVonne wrote in message ...
Alina,

Welcome to the ng.

Thanks


I'm also a "vehement non-spanker."

Congrats!

(...), but also I have never understood the mentality that justifies
raising one's hand, with or without an implement, and hitting the body
of a little child in the name of discipline.

I think in most cases they don't even stop to think about it, it's
just the way it is. It's the way they were raised and the way they've
seen other parents raise their children. A possibility of NOT spanking
has not even occured to them. Just a thought: maybe that inability to
see other options or to realise that a child is vulnerable and being
hurt, is the result of being spanked in their own childhood.

When adults hit other adults, the behavior is illegal. The behavior is
defined as assault. Yet the US denies children protection from assault.

Here in Mexico there has recently been some few actions towards
preventing and fighting domestic violence. Mostly I think they want to
protect women and children, but it won't work.

First, no goverment can just pop it's head into every single home just
to see that nobody is being abused, and most abuse victims fail to
seek help. Also, it would take a long time for all to agree on what is
and what is not abuse. But most of all, they are fighting fire with
fire. Don't punish or else you will be punished. Laws make no sense if
you can't get people educated about what lies beneath them (just the
same thing as when educating a child: if you spank him it makes no
sense, you have to get him to understand things and what lies beneath
the rules).

Children are assaulted every minute in the name of discipline.
How disgusting.

Indeed.


LaVonne

Pleased to meet you, then :-)

Alina.