re: OT: Did you get whipped/spankings as a child?

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In a world now with no moral compass...and young men shooting each other...beating women..sexual predators....kids shooting kids...I think its really funny when new age behavioral "experts" try to tell us that the way our parents and grandparents did it is "wrong". Especially when most of the kids that do this stuff don't have a father in the picture or any discipline at home.

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I am not picking on your thoughts on this subject but lets assume for a moment that you are correct and that morally society is going to hell in a hand basket, due in part to poor parenting.

Could it not then be argued that poor parenting is responsible for the unimaginably positive things that have happened to our species in the last 30 or so years??? Medicine alone is a good example...science and technology has made things common today that wouldn't have even been accepted in science fiction just 30 years ago. This is all due to a lack of spanking and there being no fathers in the homes of children.