Readers Write: Corporal punishment isn't a crime; corporal punishment isn't necessary; conservatives have a narrow focus
Letters to the Editor for Nov. 3, 2014 weekly magazine:
Greene: As a child I was disciplined in the same way that Adrian Peterson disciplined his son, and though I am not for child abuse, there is nothing wrong with physical discipline.
McPherson: Corporal punishment is never necessary.
Elmasian: Conservatives trust three news outlets while the left trusts nine sources.
Letters to the Editor for Nov. 3, 2014 weekly magazine:
Greene: As a child I was disciplined in the same way that Adrian Peterson disciplined his son, and though I am not for child abuse, there is nothing wrong with physical discipline.
McPherson: Corporal punishment is never necessary.
Elmasian: Conservatives trust three news outlets while the left trusts nine sources.
Spanking isn鈥檛 always abuse听
The Oct. 20 cover story, 鈥淭o spank or not to spank,鈥� really bothered me because as a child I was disciplined in the same way that Adrian Peterson disciplined his son. He was arrested on child abuse charges for giving what he called a 鈥渨hupping.鈥� I got many of those whippings and I turned out well. There is a fine line between child abuse and disciplining your child by putting hands on him or her. I don鈥檛 condone child abuse or how Mr. Peterson disciplined his son. When signs of abuse are shown, there is no other choice but to report the individual. Hitting a child repeatedly is not going to change anything. Every parent sees discipline differently, and there are many ways to physically discipline a child that should not be considered child abuse.听
Kenan Greene
Wahiawa, Hawaii
Physical discipline not a necessity
Regarding the Oct. 20 海角大神 Science Perspective article, 鈥淣o need for corporal punishment鈥�: The truth that 鈥淟ove is reflected in love鈥� (see 鈥淪cience and Health with Key to the Scriptures,鈥� by Mary Baker Eddy, p. 17) precludes the necessity for either corporal or capital punishment. The Monitor has led in its stand against the latter, as violence only begets more violence, and this perspective on the former is consistent with a stance for a more spiritual view of life and identity.
Marilyn McPherson
Berkeley, Calif.听
Conservatives have a narrow focus
Regarding the Oct. 21 online story 鈥淵es, conservatives watch Fox 鈥� but it鈥檚 more nuanced than that, survey finds鈥� (CSMonitor.com): This was a good story, except the right is much more estranged than it indicates. According to a Pew survey, 鈥淲here News Audiences Fit on the Political Spectrum,鈥� half or more of the 鈥渃onsistently conservative鈥� trust just four news sources, three of which are talk shows. In contrast, a majority of the left trusts nine sources, all of which feature reported news.
Robert Elmasian听
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