 | Spanking/Hitting/Smacking Children, is Unconstitutional! Imagine if your boss spanked you, every time they wanted to get your undivided attention. Children have rights! It's not okay to hit adults, and it's not okay to hit children. http://www.womanist-musings.com/2008/09/spare-rod.html Recently I have authored a few posts about spanking. This issue continues to weigh so heavily on me in part because I myself am no stranger to the belt, and because I truly believe in the right of all living beings to be free of violence. Spanking a child is a violent act and any attempt to justify it is just a denial. Children are amongst the most powerless in our society. They are considered to exist without bodily integrity and cannot legally act on their own behalf. Parenting by its very nature is authoritarian, and this has lead some to believe that they have right to strike a child in the name of discipline. Some parents repeatedly refer to a lack of spanking as a failure to discipline. This spank or no discipline argument is a ridiculous strawman and they know it. How do these parents believe that things like groundings and timeouts came into practice in the first place? There is also such a thing as rewarding positive actions to create a desire to continually perform behaviour that is socially acceptable, and responsible. When parents assert to legislators that they are taking away their right to parent/discipline, what they they are seeking is to maintain authoritarian control over children. Our offspring are of us, but do not belong to us. In a society in which many feel powerless, parenting is one of the few areas left where people feel that they have the right to complete control and ownership. Some continue to hide the desire to wield power over another by calling spanking an act of love. It is encouraged that the child be told that they are loved after each incidence of violence. What does this teach the child but to associate violence with love? How many women fall into abusive relationships after being abused themselves as children? This occurs in part because they understand violence as being part of loving someone. What hurts me the most is that there are not more pleas that base love as a supreme act of teaching. When you reach for your child their reaction should not be to shrink away with fear. We don't exhort parents to model the behaviour that we wish children to perform. It seems our entire focus is rushing them from one event to another without actually communicating about life and sharing lessons. We can schedule play dates but sitting down and critically engaging with children is something we simply don't have time for. Children are not robotic individuals that can be programmed to obey on command. Part of the process of growing is testing boundaries, and making mistakes. To be punished physically for maturing in the natural process impedes personal growth. It teaches a child that they are not worthy of respect. If we can socially decide that beating an animal is wrong why can we not decide that hitting a child, the fruit of our wombs is equally wrong? |
 | More CPS Corruption... More about what is going on in foster care. This is what corruption looks like while dancing on the graves of children. |
 | Termination of Parental Rights Sometimes, one parent seeks to have the other parents rights terminated on the basis that he or she doesn't spend time with the child, doesn't pay court-ordered child support, or simply doesn't care to be a parent. Watch this video |
 | Parental Rights Protected By The Constitution? Submitted question for the Presidential Debates regarding a specific supreme court case concerning parental rights. |
 | The Shocking Video Hillary Does NOT Want You To See! (1of2) PART 1 - Hillary! Uncensored, the unedited trailer that has been ranked #1 video in Google Top 100 in the World, will debut as a 1 hour documentary on http://www.youperview.com on November 5, 2007. Copyright T2P Media Inc. Presented by Equal Justice Foundation of America. http://www.ejfa.org Refer to Hillary Clinton Accountability Project - http://www.hillcap.org - for link to DVD and other evidence of the frauds Hillary directed to win her senate seat ------------------------------------ Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. Then, there's the Clintons... PLEASE RATE THIS VIDEO : ) The Roughcut Trailer for - Hillary! Uncensored - the Documentary. This is the video that's been buzzing around the blogs for the past few months, becoming one of the most viewed on Google Video. It shows the Peter Paul side of the issue, which involves allegations that Hillary Clinton has committed numerous federal election law violations, has lied about them to cover them up, all culminating in what might be felonious conduct on her part. Paul makes a strong case here. Will the media continue to do its best to bury what might be the largest election fraud in US history? Stay tuned... This is the most shocking expose on the blatant corruption surrounding Hillary Clinton. Includes exclusive home videos of Hillary to expose the illegalities that elected Hillary to the Senate and the obstructions of justice that keep her there. The full documentary, at (www.hillcap.org) and (www.peterfpaul.com) will be released on November 1, 2007 by Equal Justice Foundation of America - CONTRIBUTE TO EJFA, NON-PROFIT WHISTLEBLOWER FOUNDATION - https://www.registrationfactory.com/v3/?EventUUID=2A54FEC2 . TO ADVERTISE AND PUBLICIZE the ONLY documentary that dares to expose the evidence of Hillary's misconduct to the American people - Banned by the Mainstream Media! Equal Justice Foundation of America www.hillcap.org |
 | Barack Obama Father's Day reply - INVOLUNTARY fatherlessness Barack addressed the congregation at the Apostolic Church of God in Chicago, IL on June 15, 2008. This is my response: Barack is right on when he talks about the need for fathers to be more involved with their kids. But he completely misses the point that most absent fathers did NOT choose to walk away, they were FORCED OUT as innocent defendants in no-fault divorces. Democrats uphold defendants' rights, right? Apparently not in family court and not when there are no criminal charges against the defendant. We can NOT strengthen fatherhood if we ignore the ease with which any family court judge can terminate the parental rights of any good, devoted father in divorce court. Also, Obama offers several proposals to "strengthen fatherhood" - but they pretty much ALL require the father to be divorced and pay his support on time. Fathers who pay no support through an agency - BECAUSE they live at home and provide direct support - do not qualify for Obama's program. By focusing on improving support collection, Obama's plan actually will make divorce and support money MORE attractive to moms who are fearful of dad's job (in)security, his plan will increase the divorce incentives we have now and will make MORE children fatherless. This is not change. "More money for single moms" is the same-old thing we've done for decades, and it's a big part of how we got to a place where Obama needs to chide absent fathers - it IS the engine of big government's effort to REPLACE fathers as providers of family security. Also, Obama looks at fathers who have already decided to walk away, and he wants to convince them to turn around and walk back. He'd be a lot more successful if he was doing something for the fathers who were FORCED away, who already want to spend more time with their kids. Equal protection of the fundamental parental rights of all fit parents, will eliminate the divorce incentive and strengthen families. THAT would be a change! Does Obama have the courage to challenge the liberal media's "All Men Suck" template? Not so far.... |
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 | Is This Priest Responsible for Sexually Harassing a Parishioner? Watch more clips at http://www.theyoungturks.com |
 | Dear Oprah, From Anonymous With all due respect, you're way off the nut on this one. See Rule #16 of "Rules of The Interet" Cheers! .................... I have heard many songs all around the land They have told me of blithe and of woe. But my memory holds just one song of them all: That's the song of the body of workers. Hey, Dubina, the green one! Hey, you, help us do the labor hard! We pull it, and pull it, And move it!! Canny Anonymous did tons of gadgets invent As to do all the labors routinely. Anonymous strive with hands till they're tired to death Then they sing their hearts with "Dubina"! Hey, Dubina, the green one! Hey, you, help us do the labor hard! We pull it, and pull it, And move it!! We are still here. Anonymous is Legion. We do not Forgive. We do not Forget. Expect Us. |
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