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RE: How to Beat your Kids (or NOT beat them) - A Friendly Cross Culture debate (Untangled Knots #4.2)

I think this kind of practice will decrease as overall violence from crime and also with the relaxation of government control. We have a very strong concept of punishment as a culture. For me physical and mental punishments are the same, and I am against both except as a last resort. More than anything though I think children should have a refuge from the power dynamics of their parent-child relationship, either their friends, their community or other relatives