Friday, January 19, 2007
I'm Going Home to Beat The Wife and Kids
I'm just kidding. I'm going home to give them gentle encouragement.
When I was working at one particular construction project, after any difficult day the superintendent would joke that he was going home to beat the wife and kids, or he was going home to take it out on the wife and kids, or some other variation.
This only comes to mind because California Assemblywoman Sally Lieber is in the news for drafting legislation to outlaw the spanking of children under the age of four in the State of California.
From my understanding, if you spank your children, you had better not leave a mark (bruising) or you are going to jail. And I think that is a good rule to live by.
However, what you see now is more mental abuse by parents than physical abuse, because of the laws already in place on physical abuse. Would should have more laws on mental abuse of children, and leave the physical abuse laws as they are.
Furthermore, in my humble opinion, part of the gang problem we have is that new immigrants from other countries come here and they are used to beating the hell out of their kids to install authority over them. ***If anybody thinks I'm wrong, then ask anyone with Mexican heritage who's 30 and over about "The Chankla"*** We tell these parents from other cultures that the physical abuse of children is wrong, and the parents don't know how to raise a child without doing it. So they don't discipline their children, the children get out of control, and it leads to criminal activity later in life.
While the aforementioned "beating the hell out of your children" approach does not guarantee that you will have well-behaved children, I find it interesting that adults who were rowdy, out-of-control, and spanked as children are firm believers in corporal punishment.
When I was working at one particular construction project, after any difficult day the superintendent would joke that he was going home to beat the wife and kids, or he was going home to take it out on the wife and kids, or some other variation.
This only comes to mind because California Assemblywoman Sally Lieber is in the news for drafting legislation to outlaw the spanking of children under the age of four in the State of California.
From my understanding, if you spank your children, you had better not leave a mark (bruising) or you are going to jail. And I think that is a good rule to live by.
However, what you see now is more mental abuse by parents than physical abuse, because of the laws already in place on physical abuse. Would should have more laws on mental abuse of children, and leave the physical abuse laws as they are.
Furthermore, in my humble opinion, part of the gang problem we have is that new immigrants from other countries come here and they are used to beating the hell out of their kids to install authority over them. ***If anybody thinks I'm wrong, then ask anyone with Mexican heritage who's 30 and over about "The Chankla"*** We tell these parents from other cultures that the physical abuse of children is wrong, and the parents don't know how to raise a child without doing it. So they don't discipline their children, the children get out of control, and it leads to criminal activity later in life.
While the aforementioned "beating the hell out of your children" approach does not guarantee that you will have well-behaved children, I find it interesting that adults who were rowdy, out-of-control, and spanked as children are firm believers in corporal punishment.
