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"Some of the words Liza still remembers were, "a good spanking," "overpower a child," "abuse," "crazy," "spoiled rotten," and "little brat." Liza lifted Alisa's head to her lap. Humiliated, frightened, Liza began to cry, but wouldn't allow herself to make a sound. She looked over at Bill, and tears were dropping off his face, too, as he stared straight ahead, lost in his own loneliness. It was time to go back on Risperdal. Those are the things you think about as you drive a daughter who hates doctors to yet another doctor. You see your husband's face, and feel some of what you once felt." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.)

"Thus, according to Lytton's criteria, a mother waiting eleven seconds before reacting to her child's behavior is taking a "parent-initiated action," whereas a child may defy her parent on Tuesday morning in response to a spanking she received Monday night, and Lytton would classify this as a "child-initiated action." As EEA critics Alvin Pam and colleagues commented, "We find such an inference dubious since it is based on the supposition that one can discern which behavior is 'imposed' or 'elicited' ?but any family therapist will insist that child-parent encounters are interactional." - Jay Joseph, The Missing Gene: Psychiatry, Heredity, and the Fruitless Search for Genes (Get the book.)

"Just because there is a high incidence of corporal punishment in families where abuse occurs does not mean such discipline and abuse should be invariably equated, or that in families where spanking is used it will inevitably lead to abuse. The controversy over physical punishment, centering on spanking, has by now raged on for two decades. On one side are children's rights advocates, feminist groups, and many mental health providers (child psychologists, psychiatrists, and social workers)." - Lawrence H. Diller, Running on Ritalin: A Physician Reflects on Children, Society, and Performance in a Pill (Get the book.) "A spry, feisty woman who has experienced in her time various waves of hysteria over corporal punishment, she approached the topic of spanking with both wariness and disdain. "The fuss about spanking is a sideshow," she concluded. "If parents choose to use limited physical punishment with their children, they shouldn't be made to feel guilty, that they've done something wrong, or that they are 'bad' parents or failures." - Lawrence H. Diller, Running on Ritalin: A Physician Reflects on Children, Society, and Performance in a Pill (Get the book.) "Although we attempted to achieve 'neutrality' we must confess that we had a preconceived notion that corporal punishment, including spanking, was innately always 'bad.' During the conference, we became increasingly impressed with the interactive nature of corporal punishment, and that the issue of whether spanking is harmful or beneficial to a child must be viewed within the total context of a child's life and environment."27 A call for more research was issued, as usual." - Lawrence H. Diller, Running on Ritalin: A Physician Reflects on Children, Society, and Performance in a Pill (Get the book.) "The children who did better when spanking was used came from families where parenting overall was evaluated as loving and consistent. These children actually had better outcomes than those with equally supportive parents who never spanked. The conference organizers were somewhat surprised by their results. "Although we attempted to achieve 'neutrality' we must confess that we had a preconceived notion that corporal punishment, including spanking, was innately always 'bad." - Lawrence H. Diller, Running on Ritalin: A Physician Reflects on Children, Society, and Performance in a Pill (Get the book.)

"Accordingly, soap-like emulsifiers and starch are mixed in, followed by a high temperature steam cleaning, bleaching, dyeing and flavoring. The spanking fresh product is then compressed into the sticks, bars or tubs that will be sold at the market.4144 Although the words "hydrogenated" and "partially hydrogenated" tend to be used interchangeably, partially hydrogenated is the correct term. Fully hydrogenated soybean oil would be as hard as wax. From the food industry's point of view, hydrogenation serves several useful purposes." - Kaayla T. Daniel, PhD, CCN, The Whole Soy Story: The dark side of America's favorite health food (Get the book.)

"They learned that the spanking of pupils by teachers is illegal in every European country, and that in Sweden, television spots advise children of their right not to be spanked. They learned that among the world's industrialized countries, only the United States and South Africa have persevered in the practice.24 The surgeon general has pleaded for a reduction in spanking as a matter of public health, saying such a shift would decrease the cultural acceptance of violence." - John Robbins, Reclaiming Our Health: Exploding the Medical Myth and Embracing the True Source of Healing (Get the book.)

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