By Jordan Riak
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- Editorials opposing corporal punishment, 1871-2007 Publications: Bangkok Post, The Charlotte Observer(3 editorials), Chattanooga Times - Free Press, Commercial Appeal(2 editorials), Daily News (Sri Lanka), The Globe and Mail, The Guardian, The Hankyoreh (Korea), Huntsville Times, The Jackson Sun, Kennebec Journal, The Lancet , The Manila Times, Memphis Flyer, Muskogee Phoenix, New York Times, The New Zealand Herald (2 editorials), News & Observer, Pacific Daily News (Guam), Post-Gazette, The Press (New Zealand), San Francisco Chronicle, St. Petersburg Times, Taiwan Journal, USA Today, Waterville Morning Sentinel, The Weekly Journal, Winston-Salem Journal
- Shame on Arkansas, Guest Editorial, By Jordan Riak, Arkansas Times, April 3, 2008
- The whip, the paddle, the hickory switch, Presentation, Feb. 23, 2008, Black History Month Celebration, San Mateo Public Library, by Jordan Riak
- UK: Campaign to ban smacking, By Patrick Wintour, political editor (editor@societyguardian.co.uk), The Guardian, February 15 2008
- They let it die -- Deadline kills “anti-spanking” bill in state assembly, California Catholic Daily, February 7, 2008
- Spare the rod, save a psyche, By Claire Gawinowicz, The Philadelphia Inquirer, January 29, 2008
- Belts equal violence, not discipline, By Richard Davis and Robert Heskett. Mr. Davis is president and Mr. Heskett executive director of Family Nonviolence, Inc. in Fairhaven., SouthCoastToday.com, January 23, 2008
- Europe is moving towards a total ban of domestic violence against children, Source: Council of Europe - Commissioner of Human Rights, January 22, 2008
- Murder Case Tests Limits on Parents’ Right to Hit, By Andy Newman and Leslie Kaufman, The New York Times, January 20, 2008
- NEW ZEALAND: Smacking prosecution fears misplaced, Children's Rights Information Network (CRIN), December 21, 2007
- Spain bans parents from smacking children, Reporting by Ben Harding; Editing by Ibon Villelabeitia, Reuters, December 20, 2007
- VENEZUELA: Second Latin American country to ban corporal punishment, Children's Rights Information Network (CRIN), December 20, 2007
- CHILE: The Minister of Justice of the Government of Chile announces the prohibition of physical punishment as a method of correction for children, Children's Rights Information Network (CRIN), December 18, 2007
- Dangerous Product Injures Children:
Consumer Product Safety Commission looks at child safety with one eye shut, Parents and Teachers Against Violence in Education, August 2007
WARNING - These images may be deeply disturbing to some viewers. Do not open this page if children are present. - Open Letter to the American Psychological Association, Coordinated by Parents and Teachers Against Violence in Education (PTAVE)
- Response to a critic, By Jordan Riak, October 6, 2007
- We already have laws against child abuse, don't we?
- Why I Like the Strong-Willed Child, By Norm Lee, August 2007
- EDITORIAL: Close Columbia Training School By JFP Staff, Jackson free Press, June 13, 2007
- FOX Television Stations, Inc. Gives Free Advertising to Maker of Product that Endangers Children By Jordan Riak, July 1, 2007
- Spanking a child is an act of violence, By Nina Adel, Robertson County Times - TN, June 28, 2007
- Bad advice from people who should know better,
By David Cooperson, LCSW, ACSW, June 14, 2007
- CULTURAL CRUELTY TO CHILDREN -- KOREA
- Teachers as bullies, Letter to The News & Observer (NC), from Gary Schaffer, May 31, 2007
- Resolution to Reduce Violence by Refraining from Corporal Punishment of Children, Submitted to Boston City Council May 9, 2007
- A Doctor's Bad Medicine, By Patrick Briody, April 2007
- GOD TOLD HIM TO DO IT; Send a message to a paddlemaker, May, 2007
- Reasonable and moderate? You decide.
WARNING - This sound recording may be deeply disturbing to some listeners. Do not open this file if children are within listening range.- NEW ZEALAND PARENTAL CORPORAL PUNISHMENT BAN
IMMINENTPASSES BY LANDSLIDE!- Anti-smacking bill passes by landslide with only three MPs voting no, EDITORIAL: The New Zealand Herald, May 3, 2007
- Police welcome smacking bill compromise, By Audrey Young and Claire Trevett The New Zealand Herald, May 2, 2007
- Anglican Maori support repeal of Section 59, The Social Justice Commission of the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia, May 1, 2007
- The Smacking Debate Story: Bradford's law will save our children, by Deborah Coddington, The New Zealand Herald, March 18, 2007
- Anti-smacking bill opponents doing it more good than harm, by John Roughan, New Zealand Herald, March 17, 2007
- Handle With Care: The state continues to license a Midstate youth treatment facility where two have died and many others have been abused, By Elizabeth Ulrich, Nashville Scene, November 8, 2007
- NORTH CAROLINA - PROPOSED PADDLING BAN DEFEATED IN HOUSE VOTE, 66-50, May 24 2007
- RESOLUTION TO REDUCE VIOLENCE BY REFRAINING FROM CORPORAL PUNISHMENT OF CHILDREN, Submitted to Boston City Council, May 9, 2007
- CALIFORNIA NO-SPANKING ASSEMBLY BILL 755: Failed bid to protect children from assault and battery
- Reply to a spanker, By Jordan Riak, April 19, 2007
- Australia funds $2.5m anti-smacking campaign, By AAP, The Australian, April 6, 2007
- TIME FOR A FEDERAL LAWSUIT OVER PADDLER PROTECTION ACTS?
Letter to PTAVE from Jeff Charles, February 13, 2007- Rape as punishment
- Shocks From the System, By Maia Szalavitz, January 7, 2007
- Stop paddling students; Lawmakers should ban corporal punishment statewide, EDITORIAL: The Charlotte Observer, January 4, 2007
- Union County, N.C. Weighs Pupil-Beating, A letter from PTAVE to local area education policymakers and media, December 31, 2006
- ARE PADDLING SCHOOLS SANCTUARIES FOR SEXUAL PREDATORS? A letter from PTAVE to education department heads in paddling states and their responses
- Letter to writer John Balch of the Nashville Leader about the Murfreesboro school paddling incident, By Barbara Neff, November 22, 2006
- Stop spanking kids: UN envoy Canada violates rights agreement by letting parents hit their children, Lewis tells forum, By Lindsay Kines, Times Colonist, November 21, 2006
- Greece outlaws corporal punishment in the home, SOURCE: www.endcorporalpunishment.org, November 2006
- Letter to the Editor of the Muskogee Phoenix By Jordan Riak, November 14, 2006
- A letter to promoters of "Teen Help", By Jordan Riak, November 2, 2006
- Atty. J. Robert Sheppard, Jr.'s Letter to the Members of the Union County Board of Education, October 30, 2006
- Dr. Robert Fathman's letter to Dr. Gil Kliman, October 27, 2006
- Child abuse 'widespread', UN says, BBC News, October 12, 2006
- PADDLING: A practice that belongs in the dark ages, A letter to the editor by The Rev. Thomas E. Sagendorf, September 27, 2006
- Does PTAVE equate teachers to prostitutes, porn stars? September 18, 2006
- Ask ten spankers, By Jordan Riak, November, 2001; Revised April 2006
- 107 organizations call for an end to corporal punishment in schools of the United States, Open Letter to The President of the United States about the Civil Rights of Schoolchildren
- Ex-Yorktown mom takes on N.C. schools over corporal punishment, By Brian J. Howard, The Journal News, September 14, 2006
- Letter to Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, By Isabelle Allgood-Neal Member, PTAVE Board of Directors, Spetember 13, 2006
- Letter to Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, By Jordan Riak, Exec. Dir., PTAVE, August 31, 2006
Adobe Reader required- In praise of spanking, Susan Lawrence's response to a defender of spanking, August 18, 2006
- PTAVE's proposal to 272 U.S. Catholic Bishops, June, 2006
- JUDGE ROTENBERG CENTER INVESTIGATED FOR ALLEGED CRUELTY TO CHILDREN, June, 2006
- The Harlem Children's Zone; How One Man's Vision To Revitalize Harlem Starts With Children, 60 Minutes, CBS, May 14, 2006
- ALL AFRICA SPECIAL REPORT, Global Initiative to End All Corporal Punishment of Children, Save the Children Sweden, 2006
- Hostile Mail, An e-mail to Laurie A. Couture, M.Ed, LMHC and her response, May 17, 2006
- Peggy Dean's Letter to First Lady Laura Bush, April 26, 2006
- COUNSELING OR ABUSE? Pastor causes bruises and welts to teen girl's buttocks [Four articles] May 2006
- Protect Children in Chicago, May, 2006
- Proposed Resolution to Protect Children, Arlington, Massachusetts, May, 2006
- TOUGH LOVE QUACKERY: Maia Szalavitz's presentation to The Cato Foundation, April 20, 2006
- Is Desoto County Board of Education asleep at the wheel?, Peggy Dean's Letter to the Editor of the Desoto Appeal , Submitted April 18, 2006
- Getting a handle on unruly kids as easy as 1, 2, 3, By Mary Mitchell, Chicago Sun-Times, April 6, 2006
- A letter to Dr. William C. Harrison, Superintendent, Cumberland County Schools, North Carolina, From Peggy Dean, March 30, 2006
- Abusive treatment of children in the name of "Attachment Therapy", Laurie A. Couture's letter to a proponent of so-called AT, March 28, 2006
- SPANKING: Theory & Practice; Myth & Reality, (Re: Convicted sex offender, ex-headmaster Terence Lynch) February 26, 2006
- Is there a difference between spanking and abuse?, Corredspondence between B.R. and Jordan Riak, January 20, 2006
- Peggy Dean's letter to the North Carolina State Board of Education, December 13, 2005
- Ban Corporal Punishment North Carolina, October 2005
- Why doesn't the law work to protect my child at school? By Yvette Smith, Antioch, California, August 2005
- CORPORAL PUNISHMENT: An open letter to the Union County School Board, From John Erker, in the Enquirer Journal, Monroe, NC, September 18, 2005
- Pseudotherapy Dangerous to Kids: An alert to NJASP officers, From Jean Mercer, Ph.D. and Linda Rosa, R.N., SOURCE: New Jersey School Psychologist, Fall 2002
- Toxic Schools of Texas, By Jordan Riak, 2000
- It's a bad lesson to teach our children, Speaking in support of H.B. 1617, California corporal punishment ban, Caroline Wean, Vice President and General Manager of KPIX-TV, 1985 (Allow download time for audio.)
- DeSoto Parish School System is Unsafe for Children, June 5, 2005
- Sue Nunn's letter to each member of the Pennsylvania House Education Committee and a response from Rep. Paul I. Clymer, February 2005
- Dutton's All Wet On Spanking Bill, By Deana A. Pollard, Associate Professor of Law, Texas Southern University February 1, 2005
- Sale of spanking tool points up larger issue , By Patricia Wen, Globe Staff, Boston Globe, January 10, 2005 and correspondence about "The Rod" between Dr. Teresa Whitehurst and the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission.
- Paddling in Texas -- Letter to the Editor, From Jeffrey L. Charles, The Paris News, December 26, 2004
- Paddling in Texas -- Letter to the Editor, From Robert Fathman, Ph.D., The Paris News, December 22, 2004
- Time to Get Serious, By Jordan Riak, December 22, 2004
- CANADA: S-21, Proposed spanking ban legislation -- Correspondence between a grandparent and a senator, December 7 & 9, 2004
- A Letter to The Ombudsman for Children, By Olivier Maurel, France, November 30, 2004
- Letter to School Board Members in Paddling Districts, By Jordan Riak, November 2004
(Readers who would like to forward copies of this letter to their school board members, may use the PDF file at http://nospank.net/riak108.pdf.)- Reply to a Christian conservative who claims to be living proof of spanking's benefits , By Jordan Riak, November 11, 2004
- Protecting children, one city at a time
- Brookline, Massachusetts -- First U.S. municipality to condemn spanking, May 27 2005
- Oakland, California: A no-spanking city? Almost. 1998-99
- Press release: Apology for slavery issued by University of Alabama, but slavery-derived whippings still widespread
- Our Work Against "The Rod" - A Call to Action , By Sue and Steve Lawrence
- Corporal punishment of children: Think globally, act locally, Ron Goldman's article in the Brookline Tab, May 26, 2004, and his "Article 16," a proposal to the Town Meeting of Brookline Massachusetts.
- Treatment of POW's versus schoolchildren, Letter to The Nashville City Paper from Tom Johnson, May 11. 2004
- Letter to the Members of the Memphis School Board and Reply to Member Patrice Robinson, Jordan Riak, February 25, 2004
- Letter About Child Abuse to Selected Arkansans and Their Responses, Jordan Riak, January 2004
- Recall the rod!, By Susan Lawrence, December 2003
- Canada Greens Want Repeal of Section 43, SOURCE: Green Party of Canada, Living Platform 2003
- Presentation to the Sumner County Board of Education (Tennessee), By Tom Johnson, October 21, 2003
- Letter to Taylor D. August, Director, Office for Civil Rights, Dallas, By Isabelle Allgood Neal, February 27, 2004
- Presentation to the Beaumont (Texas) School Board, By Isabelle Allgood Neal, October 17, 2003
- Dallas ISD Clings to Paddle, August 2003.
- Now is the time to fix it! A project in which every thinking, caring person can, and should, participate. WARNING - The images on this page may be deeply disturbing to some viewers. They must not be viewed by children.
- ABUSE IN SCHOOLS IS OUT! By Jordan Riak
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PDF version (20 KB)- A spanking debate, almost, Message to the NoSpankList, June 26, 2003
- Riak's letter to Dallas Morning News re: "DISD may end paddling", June 18, 2003
- A Dark Day for Children in Wyoming, By Jordan Riak, February 27, 2003
- Letter from Jordan Riak to California Assembly Member Lois Wolk, March 31, 2003
- Letter from Jordan Riak to the Galvestone County Daily News, March 30, 2003. This was prompted by "The spanking judge of Galveston County" which appeared in the Galveston Daily News of the same date.
- Letter from Jordan Riak to Missouri Representative Shannon Cooper, about corporal punishment. Copies were sent to all members of both houses of the Missouri state legislature, March 15, 2003.
- Letter from Jordan Riak to both houses of the Texas state legislature, about Rep. Harold Dutton's bill, HR 374, to remind parents that spanking is legal. Sent snailmail to all members of both houses of the Texas legislature, March 10, 2003.
- Children Forgotten, By Dr. Colin P. Kerr, Pediatrician A letter to The Democrat, October 1, 1982, Winters, California
- The duty to protect: Blackstone's doctrine of in loco parentis: A lens for viewing the sexual abuse of students, Todd A. DeMitchell, September 2, 2003
- Schoolchildren forced to clean urine from bathroom floor, Letter to Project NoSpank, October 15, 2002
- Paddling in Schools, Jordan Riak, New York Times, May 3, 2001
- Montana: Three angry letters about abuse in the classroom and its coverup
- Riak's letter of September 28, 1989 to Governor Stan Stephens,
- Response to Riak from Marc Racicot, Attorney General of Montana and
- A threatening letter to Riak from Chronister, Driscol & Moreen, Attorneys at Law, Helena, Montana
- Rejected: A plan to protect children in California Correspondence with the California Department of Motor Vehicles concerning the placement of no-spanking notices in field offices, May and June 2002.
- Mississippi, Shame on You!
A letter to Mississippi lawmakers, education and health officials, May 7, 2002- Letter of encouragement to the Pennsylvania State Board of Education, May 21 & 22, 2002
Response to the above letter from State Senator Allyson Y. Schwartz, 4th District, May 31, 2002- Child Abuser or Father of the Year? -- Reflections on the Soto Decision, By Jordan Riak, May 4, 2002
- Corporal Punishment: A Shameful Exploitation of Age and Size, By Randy Cox, LCSW, April 23, 2002
- Some Thoughts on the Dooley Verdict, By Richard van Abbe, April 19, 2002
- Letter to Tennessee Department of Education Commissioner Faye Taylor , April 12, 2002
- Letter to Louisiana Legislators, April 11, 2002
- Letter to Tennessee Legislators, April 10, 2002
- Letter to Tennessee Governor Sundquist, April 5, 2002 and The Governor's reply of April 11, 2002
- Letter from Dr. Kaye Manson Jeter, Legal Counsel, Tennessee Department of Education to Jordan Riak, April 16, 2002
- Jordan Riak's reply to Dr. Kaye Manson Jeter, April 17, 2002
- Jeff Charles' comments on the role of education department legal counsels in paddling states, April 18, 2002
- The child pornography ring you won't hear about from John Ashcroft: Two news accounts and a commentary by Tom Johnson
- Wyoming Legislature commits an anti-child act in broad daighlight!
- Experts: Spanking harms children, especially girls, WOMENSENEWS, September 23, 2001
- Open letter to Kim Gandy, President, National Organization for Women (NOW) From Parents and Teachers Against Violence in Education, February 1, 2002
- GEORGE W. BUSH SPEAKS OUT (VERY SOFTLY) ON SCHOOL CORPORAL PUNISHMENT
- PROJECT NOSPANK FORGES IMPORTANT ALLIANCE
- THE BAUMRIND FALLACY
- TEEN BUSTING, By Armelle Vincent Arriola, June 2001
- PUPIL MANAGEMENT IN TENNESSEE, 2001 Armed, ready and legal, a public school teacher whacks a child's pelvic area with a piece of wood.
- TEACHER LIABILITY PROTECTION Everything you need to know about TLP that the government hasn't told you
- OPEN LETTER OF WARNING TO EDUCATORS Man awarded $2.5 million for strapping
- PARENTS BEWARE -- Schools or "youth training programs" that absolutely should be avoided, Compiled by Jordan Riak, June 2001
- SHOULD PADDLING BE BANNED IN SCHOOLS?, By Dr. Ralph S. Welsh. A letter to the editor of teennewsweek.com, May 14, 2001
- GOOD POLITICS, BAD LAW, Teacher Protection in Texas
- BAN CORPORAL PUNISHMENT TEXAS, An open letter to members of the Texas Legislature
- Offensive assault definition--What distinguishes caress from slap in the face?, By Bill Williamson, Kennebec Journal and Waterville Morning Sentinel, March 3, 2000
- AN UGLY EPISODE IN A MICHIGAN SCHOOL, An exchange of letters between Penny W______ and Jordan Riak, March 2001
- MISSISSIPPI EDUCATION GEARING UP IN REVERSE, By Jordan Riak
- WHO TEACHES THE PADDLERS AND WHAT DO THEY TEACH THEM? (A query to educators in the paddling states and their responses)
- PROJECT DAYLIGHT (U.S. law- and policy-makers' and others' opinions of school corporal punishment in 2001)
, By Jordan Riak, December 2000- Weasel words don't protect children
, [Adobe PDF version], An analysis of Minnesota's pseudo-definition of child abuse- Notes from another planet, By Pat Briody, June 2000
- Vilifying the scapegoad, then and now
- It's a bad lesson to teach our children, Speaking in support of H.B. 1617, California corporal punishment ban, Caroline Wean, Vice President and General Manager of KPIX-TV, 1985 (Allow download time for audio.)
- Future plans for Berkeley, California? Or your town?
- Spanking, sex and Solomon
- Deep are the roots, From Adolf Hitler, by John Toland (1976), pp 12-13
- Famous spankees
- For many more files like the above, see Jordan Riak -- letters, articles, etc. .