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"The greatest terror a child can have is that he is not loved, and rejection is the hell he fears. I think everyone in the world to a large or small extent has felt rejection. And with rejection comes anger, and with anger some kind of crime in revenge for the rejection, and with the crime guilt — and there is the story of mankind." John Steinbeck, East of Eden, 1952 "There never was a time when a major social problem was solved by beating a child. And there never will be such a time... For centuries adults have injured children and have lied about it, and other adults have heard those lies and then merely turned away," Surgeon General Dr. C. Everett Koop, 1989. Read more. "Despite frequent and loud screaming heard coming from the house, the neighbor said there was no indication of abuse." Contra Costa Times, September 4, 2008



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Alice Miller 1923 - 2010



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  • N.Y. Rep. Carolyn McCarthy's proposal to ban corporal punishment in U.S. schools is now being considered by U. S. House Committee on Education and Labor of which Rep. McCarthy is a member. Please show your support for this important reform by adding your name to the petition promoted by www.thehittingstopshere.com.
      — Click here, then scroll to"PETITION," and follow the instructions.

  • Time to Ban Physical Punishment of Students in all Schools
      — Stacey Patton,
    The Defenders Online - A Civil Rights Blog of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund web site, May 21, 2010

  • United States House Committee on Education and Labor considers ban on corporal punishment in U.S. schools, April 15, 2010. Testimony of:
      — Donald E. Greydanus, MD, Pediatrics Program Director at the Kalamazoo Center for Medical Studies.
      — Linda Pee, mother of abused student

  • The origin and true purpose of the paddle.
      — George Ryley Scott; William H. Grier, M.D. and Price M. Cobbs, M.D.

  • Phoenix Children's Hospital: Report on Physical Punishment in the United States.
      — Dr. Elizabeth Gershoff

  • 223,190 Kids Legally Beaten in US Schools
      — Anthony Adams

  • Research at U. of N.H. shows how spanking affects I.Q.
    View video; Read article.
      — Dr. Nancy Snyderman, NBC's chief medical editor
      — Dr. Murray Straus, U. of N.H.

  • The King of Pain
      — Max Blumenthal

  • Dangerous Product Injures Children
      — PTAVE's letter to the Consumer Product Safety Commission

  • Sowing the seeds of sadomasochism
      — Jordan Riak

  • State Actors Beating Children: A Call For Judicial Relief
      — Deana Pollard Sacks

  • Teachers who Bully Students: Patterns and Policy Implications
      — Alan McEvoy, Ph.D., Wittenberg University, 2005

  • It's a bad lesson to teach our children
      — Caroline Wean, Vice President and General Manager of KPIX-TV, 1985 (Allow download time for audio.)

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    Spanking
    Questions and answers
    about disciplinary violence

    By Olivier Maurel
    Preface by Alice Miller


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