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beckychandler The "American College of Pediatricians" is merely a handful of socially-conservative pediatricians. This ersatz "professional organization" is so tiny their entire national membership could probably meet in a church basement. They refuse to divulge their actual membership numbers. The media (with the exception of Fox News) ignores them for good reason. They constitute an attempt to confuse the public into thinking they are the pediatric profession's national organization when they aren't.
You confused the ACP with the
American Academy of Pediatrics, the bonafide, 66,000-strong, professional association with which the ACP clearly hoped you'd confuse them. The A
AP, the
real professional association of pediatricians, took a position against all forms of corporal punishment of children a couple decades ago:
"Because of the negative consequences
of spanking and because it has been
demonstrated to be no more effective than
other approaches for managing undesired
behavior in children, the American Academy
of Pediatrics recommends that parents be
encouraged and assisted in developing methods
other than spanking in response to undesired
behavior."
-American Association of Pediatrics policy
paper RE9740, April 1998, pp 723-728.
The tiny ACP hold predictable "traditional values" positions on a variety of issues, including gay parenting, gay marriage, adoption by gay couples, pornography, keeping marijuana illegal, "abstinence-only" sex education, "therapy" to "cure" gay teenagers, gender dysphoria in children, abortion, and spanking - most of which differ from positions by the 66,000-member AAP. And by adopting a name similar to the A
AP, the ACP strives to give their political-agenda-driven views the appearance of a professional imprimatur they plainly lack.
The myth-busting site, snopes.com, calls the ACP "an official-sounding but fringe group of politically motivated pediatricians.":
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/americas-pediatricians-gender-kids/
The Southern Poverty Law Center lists the ACP as "a fringe anti-LGBT hate group that masquerades as the premier U.S. association of pediatricians.":
https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/american-college-pediatricians
They have even been accused of deliberately misrepresenting research by the author of such research:
Statement from NIH Director Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D., in Response to the American College of Pediatricians - April 15, 2010
"It is disturbing for me to see special interest groups distort my scientific observations to make a point against homosexuality. The American College of Pediatricians pulled language out of context from a book I wrote in 2006 to support an ideology that can cause unnecessary anguish and encourage prejudice. The information they present is misleading and incorrect, and it is particularly troubling that they are distributing it in a way that will confuse school children and their parents."
Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D.
https://web.archive.org/web/20110727115017/http://www.nih.gov/about/director/04152010_statement_ACP.htm
Here is another example:
http://www.citypages.com/news/university-of-minnesota-professors-research-hijacked-6725473
"The American College of Pediatricians" is a ruse, attempting to fool the public, Becky Chandler. And you fell for it. Ironically, if a
child engaged in the kind of deceptive behaviors which are the ACP's stock and trade, the ACP would recommend that the child be given a good spanking. 🙄
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