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Bill would allow spanking in Kansas classrooms that leave marks
A Kansas lawmaker wants to make it legal for teachers and caregivers to spank children. House member Gail Finney, D-Wichita, said the bill was designed with restoring parental rights in mind.
Report: Spanking leads to bad behavior
New evidence shows that spanking may lead to bad behavior. Using a nationally represented sample, researchers interview 1,933 parents when their children were 3 and 5 years old. They gathered data based on how often they spanked their children.
REPORT: Spanking Children Linked To Mental Health Issues
According to a recent report, spanking your child can lead to mental health issues later in life; including depression, ptsd, and alcohol and drug problems. Is it really okay to spank children?
Four years removed from his year-long suspension, Adrian Peterson reveals he still hits his children
In a profile on running back Adrian Peterson, who now plays for the team in Washington with the racist name, Bleacher Report‘s Master Tesfatsion reveals that the running back who was infamously suspended following a public child abuse case, has moved from disciplining his children with a switch to disciplining them with a belt as […]
Queer isn’t who you are, it’s how you reclaim freedom. And even the gayest of us sometimes fail at it
Content Note: This essay contains details about childhood sexual assault My parents didn’t hit me growing up. I know they hit my older siblings, but something had changed over the years before I got here. Maybe they saw it didn’t help. Maybe they even knew hitting children causes significant harm. But I like to think […]
Feature: The racial parenting divide: What Adrian Peterson reveals about black vs. white child-rearing
The following post is from Salon.com. It was written by Brittney Cooper. By: Brittney Cooper In college, I once found myself on the D.C. metro with one of my favorite professors. As we were riding, a young white child began to climb on the seats and hang from the bars of the train. His […]
Bill in Kansas would allow cops to arrest those who complain about police
A bill in Kansas is being considered by the state’s House Standing Committee on Corrections and Juvenile Justice that would give police the power to arrest people who file complaints against them if those allegations were proven false. The bill, HB 2698, was anonymously filed by someone on the Corrections and Juvenile Justice committee, which would […]
She's Gotta Have it: What, Exactly, is "Rape Rape"?
I’m still on IR trying to get this chapter draft to semi-embarrassing level. (Which, frankly, would be a pleasant surprise to my committee since, you know, I rarely have anything to show them–and when I do it’s some incoherent mess about black people and geography. Yes, I mortify the race with every word I type.) […]