So, pro-spanking parents aren’t Nazis?

Thanks to the power of the internet, trying to hide pro-spanking studies is an ice-cream headache for the media.

Moreover, in Queensland, Australia, elites find little support: “The Sunday Mail-Nine News State of Families Survey has revealed that 85 per cent of people agree parents have the right to smack their children, with more than a third in ‘strong agreement’.”

But in a desperate attempt to resurrect moral equivalence, the mother who spanks her son is now compared to a child abuser. In stark contrast again, though, the media’s made-for-television soap star parent who prefers “time out” is never portrayed as a prison camp director, holding a prisoner of conscience.

Nor is biology important. Forgetting that our brains are still developing in our twenties, and that children respond to physical language, so-called experts are falling on their discredited arguments such as, “You wouldn’t spank an adult so why spank a child?” And this scholarly case: “Smacking doesn’t work, and you’re mean.”  

Of course, a married mother wouldn’t send her husband to his room, or allow her child to drive to school, but in the coming years, be prepared for more unhinged arguments because campaigning journalists/reporters are never wrong.

Swedish Alzheimer’s

As well, I’m going to predict that the elite media will continue to deny Sweden’s failed social experiments (a leftwing-approved Australian university tradition).  Or to quote, Theodore Kettle,  “Another study” buried by numerous newspapers and “published in the Akron Law Review last year [2009] examined criminal records and found that children raised where a legal ban on parental corporal punishment is in effect are much more likely to be involved in crime.”

Bottom line (no conscious pun intended): parental pacifism backfired in model Sweden and the cheerleaders were unable or unwilling to process the mess. What you’re unlikely to hear on Big Television: “Since the spanking ban, child abuse rates in Sweden have exploded over 500 percent, according to police reports.”

And it’s a familiar pattern. “As in climate change, politicians all over the world seem out of touch with the most rigorous science regarding parental discipline,” explains Kettle.

For today, media-approved experts refuse to concede that the pro-spanking parents of yesteryear reared more respectful children.  To conflate “spanking with hitting over the head with a baseball bat” is common notes James Allan, Garrick Professor of Law at the University of Queensland, in another example of Ryan-like honesty.