Meg Logan’s Blog

It would seem that California Democrat Lieber, thinks a slap on the hand or rump is “beating” your small child.

“I think it’s pretty hard to argue you need to beat a child three years old or younger,” said Lieber, who plans to introduce the bill next week.”The bill, which was still being drafted, would make the crime a misdemeanor and be written to ban “any striking of a child, any corporal punishment, smacking, hitting, punching, any of that,” Lieber said.(Yahoo News)

Lieber is a fool who stands not only against the freedom of American parents to discipline their children as they deem fit, but also against God Almighty. When the government decides to get involved in this, how will they enforce it? Where will the involvement end? Really what right does the government have to peek into our houses and determine if we have raised our children rightly? Furthermore, if we simply look back on the history of the US, when spanking in a godly manner was more prolific, we had less crime, well behaved kids, and adults who were responsible. Today, most kids are out of control, and do not grow up to be mature adults but instead remain childish, indulging their every desire (look at the lack of control in credit use!)

I have yet to run across a study that controls for all the behaviors involved in corporal discipline. Most studies do not differentiate between fair and judicial spanking and just swatting out of anger. There is a HUGE difference here, not to be ignored. A parent certainly CAN abuse a young child by spanking them out of frustration, too hard, without consistency, or just because they are being mean! This certainly ought to be guarded against. The government ought to protect children from beatings that threaten life and limb, but to restrict a slap on the hand for young children is just plain foolish.

The judicial use of a spanking reaps wonderful benefits for the child. It helps to control them when they cannot control themselves. “Thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me” Psalm 23:4 b. The list of scriptures on the use of the rod is extensive. This article will not be going into that. There are plenty of other sites that address this.

It is precisely the young formative years when the will is more easily guided into submission that the rod is useful. Once a child is habituated in the sin of rebellion and defiance and self indulgence it is harder to break them from it. If anything, making this a law could increase the instances of child abuse in families of wild kids, because the only method proven over time to “drive foolishness from the heart of a child” is the rod, and parents will be at a loss for discipline until firm habits have already been established.

This is an unfortunate series of events. This website is likely behind alot of the fervor to make this a law. It has a list for petitioners. Well Christian parents, what can be done? Shall we also start a petition? Certainly the power of prayer is not to be neglected!

Mrs. Meg Logan

resources about lieber:
http://www.nospank.net/lieber-1.htm

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070119/lf_afp/uspoliticschildren_070119202053