Massachusetts could become the first state to make it illegal for parents to spank their children. Today, at the Massachusetts State House, the hearing for a bill to ban the practice was standing room only - From ABCNews.com

I personally think spanking is child abuse, but I have a friend who insists that it is the best way to discipline his son. When he was a child he was beat quite severly by his mother but still insists on using this method of discipline.

you can't be pro choice AND value life. What a contradiction. If you felt that babies were so important, like you say, you wouldn't believe in abortion. (another contradiction)

Every child should be a wanted child. It is much less likely to be an abused child if it is wanted.

Every child should be a wanted child. It is much less likely to be an abused child if it is wanted.

Statistics don't bear that out. Children who are abused are more often planned than not. And whether a child is planned at the time of conception or initially "wanted" doesn't necessarily mean he or she won't be wanted as he or she grows.

Furthermore, if abortion cured child abuse, we'd have no child abuse. Instead, child abuse has grown dramatically since the Supreme Court decided abortion can't be illegal. My opinion is that when we devalue life in the womb, we naturally don't hold it in esteem outside of the womb either.

wow i have no idea why this question is even on this site... i thought this thread was about .... like... getting spanked during sex and it maybe displacing the band... woah....

wow i have no idea why this question is even on this site... i thought this thread was about .... like... getting spanked during sex and it maybe displacing the band... woah....

LOL - thanks for the levity, sometimes we all take ourselves too seriously!

Edited October 14, 200817 yr by Donna113

you are so informed. I love it!