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How does this affect the BDSM crowd?

Poor California; once the Golden State, now the symbol of American social decay.

I started watching people who rear their children without correcting them years ago and alway told people there was a future prison inmate. I have been right in several cases. They were spoiled brats, now they're prison inmates.

Scrapiron, go to your room until you realize why you are being sent to your room.

So I guess turning a 3 year old's life upside-down by sending Mommy or Daddy away to jail for a year wouldn't inflict as much mental or emotional damage as a smack on the hand or backside would. Libs have it all figured out, don't they?

A quick slap on the heiney just gets their attention and deters them from bad behaviour. It gives no long-term damage. It is not child abuse. Letting kids grow up as spoiled brats without discipline is child abuse.

But, hey, don't trust parents to know when to use restraint. Because of the 1 in 10,000 that's an abuser, the other 9,999 have to suffer. It's the left-wing way. It's the way of Hillary's Village.

Does this mean you can't spank for ANY reason? What if you catch them eating an oreo cookie or trans fat?

like i told my own when they were younger and they would say to me "mom, you know they told us at school YOU could go to jail if you spank us?"

i would take the phone, hand it to them along with the number to 911 and BEG them to call the sheriff - i needed a break every now and then - seems it came around right about the same time they needed an arsewhuppin'!

of course, i'd also enlighten them to what foster care was all about - that, or they'd have to go with one set of grandparents or the other - well, it didn't take too many times of that...ratz - i never did get that two or three week vacation, three squares, cable tele, no worries...one of these days...

in all honestly, i'm better for the spankings i received and my children are ten times better off than i having NOT needed the spankings i received - if that makes any sense at all.

Now doesn't the threat, "I'm gonna scoop out your cranial cavity with a rusty spoon if you're bad" seems like a better choice of discipline vs. whacking the gluteus maximus? Late-term murder will become all the rage, since it's legit.

btw, did anyone else get the idea that the film "Starship troopers"
(the film where the alien sucked out the brain of its victims) was actually a not so subtle protest against late-term abortions? It seemed rather clear to me.

The key to good discipline is moderation and reason. You only have to do it a few times to get their attention and, as long as you explain why you're doing it, and as long as you don't do it in the heat of anger, then after that they'll be well behaved. But I guess many people, especially those on the left, don't understand the concept of moderation. In their world, if you're going to do anything then presumably you'll be doing it all the time with no regard for the feelings of others. Disicpline that follows the logic of the left would be damaging. Who needs to use a whip? If you discipline your children properly early in life then you won't need to discipline them later.

And Arizona may ban the Minutemen. Moonbat Arizona Legislator and ACLU to present bill labeling Minutemen "Domestic Terrorists".

One frustrating thing about this is that spanking will now be political. I know conservatives and liberals who spank, and I know conservatives and liberals who don't spank. But now that California had to get involved, conservatives will be labeled as the evil spankers and liberals as the "moral" non-spankers.

Great.

shouldn't we start by banning smoking near children?