I Am A Strict Mom

Recently there has been a tsunami of reports in the media that the science is in – spanking a child is the worst thing a parent could possibly do.

This prompted the American College of Pediatricians (an organization of some 60,000 pediatricians and pediatric researchers) to issue a detailed warning last month:"Research on Disciplinary Spanking is Misleading":

“It turns out that most research against spanking uses methods so flawed that such studies would be rejected if they were being used to halt a medical procedure, such as chemotherapy for combating cancer. The anti-spanking research suffers from three major fallacies or defects that invalidate its conclusions......”

You can read the report here: http://bit.ly/2kQr8l6 [must copy & paste since SW does not allow external links] You will be astounded!!!!! You have been lied to!!!!

The pediatricians warn that the bad spanking research gets into the media, while the good research does not. This is exactly what I concluded years ago after carefully reviewing the literature . The scales fell off my eyes --it was clear my strict Mom had not been so dumb after all: https://similarworlds.com/story?fid=2327115&tid=585015&name=I-Am-A-Strict-Mom

Much of the anti-spanking “research” originates from the University of New Hampshire and the late Dr. Murray Straus. Straus claimed to be a scientist, but he was not – he was a progressive ideologue who created an anti-spanking industry. There was a massive rebellion within his staff because he was designing experiments that would lead to a predetermined outcome on spanking.

However, the liberal media has given a platform to this stuff – passing it off to parents as science, while ignoring the objective research of scientists like Dr. Diana Baurind (Straus's former assistant) whose studies have concluded that parents over the ages have been right – spanking is a helpful parenting tool!


Perhaps even worse than misleading parents, this phony research is being used to enable politicians and governments to intrude in the family, and trample on the traditional rights of parents. Who knows where the politicians will stop?

This Mom has had enough of it!!!!