Arnie said he was "smacked about everything" during his childhood (re: spanking law)

[Kadie]

California lawmaker proposes no-spanking law

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In an interview with the San Jose Mercury News, which first reported the proposal this week, the film-star-turned-politician said he was "smacked about everything" during his childhood in Austria.

"That was the way Austria worked," he told the newspaper. "You know, I think it maybe had something to do with after the war. People were maybe more angry and more frustrated, you know, having lost the war or whatever else."

The governor said he understood the desire to "get rid of the physical, the brutal behavior that some parents have."

And he added that he and his wife, Maria Shriver, have never hit their four children. "Absolutely not," he said.

more...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070119/ts_alt_afp/uspoliticschildren_070119201820


Although a California lawmaker says she has proposed a law that would make spanking a small child a crime to be punished by jail time or a fine, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, seen here with his son Christopher in 2006, says he was "smacked about everything" during his childhood in Austria.(AFP/Pool/File/Damian Dovarganes)

[Lord Byron]

1. Ok let's arrest parents for slapping or spanking their children

Wonderful idea.

*sarcasm*

[Bluebear]

2. That's quite a quick response with no discussion. nt

[Lord Byron]

5. I think it's a silly proposal

Different cultures take different approaches to this subject. Mild corporal punishment by parents shouldn't be a crime. That's just so outrageous I didn't even think it merited discussion.

[Cleita]

3. If you lived in Sweden you would be arrested.

From young Swedes I have met here in the USA, it seems to be a good policy as they have raised healthy and happy children who are well educated as well.

[LiberalFighter]

4. Austria didn't lose the war. They were annexed

[Sapere aude]

6. Good ole boy says, "I was spanked as a child and I turned out OK, I even spank my kids and sometimes

I let the little lady have it when she gets out of line. I'll kick the shit out of anyone who says spanking hurts kids."

[Bluebear]

7. "Plus it's in the Bible about sparing the rod."

"Jesus said it, I believe it and that settles it!"

[sandnsea]

8. This isn't what people care about

Get out of people's lives. Child abuse is already a crime and we can't even keep up with that.

[LostinVA]

9. His father was a Nazi -- big surprise

[theboss]

10. I was hit twice in my childhood.

Once was a well-deserved spanking.

Once was a smack to the face in a discount shoe store.

Looking back, I'm glad my parents weren't abusive. I'm also glad that they were willing to keep that ultimate option open.

[NorthernSpy]

11. spanking is sexualized battery -- thoroughly Oedipal and gross...

How else do you think all those fetishers get their start?

Whenever I hear someone express gratitude for having had their bottom pummelled in childhood, I think, eeeewww -- sick!


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