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Time to Spare the Rod in Black Communities, By Stacey Patton, The Defenders Online - A Civil Rights Blog of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund web site, April 13, 2010
Being a parent is not a licence to hurt,
By Maud de Boer-Buquicchio, Deputy Secretary General of the Council of Europe, New Europe, (Issue : 823), March 1, 2009
Converging Evidence From Social Science Research
and International Human Rights Law and Implications
for U.S. Public Policy By Elizabeth T. Gershoff, University of Michigan and
Susan H. Bitensky, Michigan State University College of Law
SOURCE: Psychology, Public Policy, and Law
2007, Vol. 13, No. 4, 231–272,
Copyright 2008 by the American Psychological Association,
1076-8971/08/$12.00 DOI: 10.1037/1076-8971.13.4.231
Childhood origins of terrorism: Authors: Ali Salem, David Tell, Lloyd deMause, Alice Miller, Phyllis Chesler, Jamie Glazov, Riane Eisler, Salman Rushdie, Philip Caputo
Too much anger in black youth today [Harvard Medical School Professor of psychiatry, Dr. Alvin Poussaint quoted.], By Clarence Page, News-Leader.com, August 17, 2006
Excerpt from "The Need to Punish: Political Consequences of Identifying with the Aggressor," by Arno Gruen. This article, which
appeared in The Journal of Psychohistory, Vol 27, No. 2, Fall 1999, is based on Der Fremde In Uns (The Stranger Within) by Arno
Gruen, to be published in Spring of 2000 by Clett-Kotta, Stuttgart. Prof. Dr. Phil. Arno Gruen, Rütisrasse 4, Ch-8032 Zürich, Switzerland, is a psychoanalyst and psychotherapist.
Demystifying the Defenses of Corporal Punishment, Murray A. Straus, Ph.D., Family Research Laboratory, University of New Hampshire
Durham, NH 03824. [This is a PDF file. Acrobat Reader is required for viewing.]
It Never Did Me Any Harm, Ian Gibson
from The English Vice: Beating, Sex and Shame in Victorian England and After, London: Duckworth, 1978, pp. 2-4, 284, 308, 310-15.
Experts Speak Out on Punishment, Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish, from How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk, Avon Books, 1980, (pp. 115-117)
No vital organs there, so they say by Lesli Taylor, M. D. and Adah Maurer, Ph. D.
This succinct and authoritative short essay on the physical and psychological effects of buttocks-beating is essential reading for parents, health care providers, educators and public education policymakers.
Health Tips: Corporal Punishment in Our Schools
A publication of the California Medical Education and Research Foundation, prepared and
edited by physician members of the California Medical Association,
Index 479 - October 1985
What Causes Spanking Fetishes? A Testable Model, Chris Dugan
Originally published in three parts as "Origins of Spanking Fetish," on newsgroups alt.sexuality.spanking and soc.sexuality.spanking, July 1996.
Tactile Deprivation and Violence, Ashley Montagu, Excerpted from Touching: The Human Significance of the Skin, Third Edition, New York: Harper & Row Publishers, 1986. (pp. 224-28)
The Sins of the Fathers,
David Bakan, From Slaughter of the Innocents: A Study of the Battered Child Phenomenon (1971). Boston: Beacon Press. pp. 115-117. (1971)
Parental and home influences on the development of aggression in children, Norma and Seymour Feshbach, from The Young Child: Reviews of Research, Edited by Willard W. Hartup, Institute of Child Development, University of Minnesota. Published by the National Association for the Education of Young Children, Washington, D.C. (1972). Volume 2, pp. 290-292.
Some Antecedents of Felonious and Delinquent Behavior, Alan DeWitt Button, Ph.D.
A version of this paper was presented at the annual convention, American Psychological Association, Honolulu, Hawaii, September 8, 1972.
Force and Fear Have No Place in Education, Albert Einstein, From the essay "On Education" in Out of My Later Years, Philosophical Library, Inc., 1950, New York. (pp. 33-35)
Spanking and Mental Health; Prescription for Reform,
By Herbert A. Falk, Ph.D., Excerpted from Corporal Punishment: A Social Interpretation of its Theory and Practice in the Schools of the United States, Bureau of Publications, Teachers College, Columbia University, 1941. pp. 144-47