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Sunday, April 06, 2008

California Trying To Ban Spanking

Again.

Which, again, begs the question: Who is ultimately responsible for raising our children?  Parents, or the state?  The line is getting blurrier all the time.  A court in California has ruled that parents can’t home school their children, and Indiana has a law in the work that would make volunteering at your child’s school mandatory.

The irony of making volunteering something that is mandatory is apparently lost on some in Indiana.

But that aside, does anyone really believe that we can legislate good parenting?  Or that the state is capable of making parenting decisions better than parents?

Freedom means choice, and while not all parents make good choices taking away their ability to make choices robs them of their freedom.

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Who is ultimately responsible for raising our children?

Ever since the political ascent of American feminism, the leftie model has been that the State owns the children, with the mothers in control.  Fathers aren’t even in the picture, except to pay for what the mother and the State wants.  A sorry state of affairs, but it’s the ongoing reality.


"If the good men are silent only the wicked are heard.” - Edmund Burke

robert108 on April 6, 2008 at 04:57 pm

We had better put a stop to this right away. Already we have so-called concerned teachers scrutinizing every scratch or bruise they see. Gotta make sure those naughty parents don’t get away with child abuse, you know. I hope that everyone in every state that attempts to invade our homes and control our children write their legislators post haste. I wonder who is going to pay for the time lost while the parents are “volunteering” in Indiana?

watashiwa on April 6, 2008 at 09:05 pm

and Indiana has a law in the work that would make volunteering at your child’s school mandatory.

The article is confusing as it does mention Indiana. However, it is Ohio that is persuing this legislatiive oxymoron.


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Spartacus on April 7, 2008 at 06:49 am

Ban spanking? In California? That’s odd, because from the looks of some of the Berkeley anti-military and Code Pink types it looks like they probably pay good money for that from time to time.

Wait....oh you meant spanking their kids. Oops. An Emily Latella moment.

Nevermind.


Election ‘08 - We Are So Screwed

Pilgrim on April 7, 2008 at 10:42 am

Pilgrim:  :^).

Technically, we might point out that it is a legislator, or a few, in Kahleefornia that is trying to ban spanking, not a significant part of the same legislature.  That said, yeesh.  We turn a deaf ear when an adult pays for the abortion for his teenage paramour, and raise Hell when a parent disciplines his child?  Say what?

Bike Bubba on April 7, 2008 at 12:06 pm
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