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Re:Ignoring Boys' Emotional Needs Fuels Public Health Risks by d--b on Monday June 26, 2023 @06:39AM (#36477996)
I am in France, where hitting kids has become illegal only in 2019. There is a practice we call fessee which consists of slapping the butt of your kid, which sort of hurts but fades quickly. It’s been around forever here and when I was a kid in the 80s was the ultimate threat (our fathers got the “martinet” which is small whip).

Anyways, although illegal, hurting your kid is a very common practice around here.

On that subject: humiliation in school by teachers has been prohibited since 1953, and is still common here too. In the first school my kid went to, there was a board on the wall in the hallway where they would write the name of bad boys to public-shame them.

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Re:Ignoring Boys' Emotional Needs Fuels Public Health Risks by hotpotamus on Monday June 26, 2023 @06:48AM (#36478048)
In the US it's called spanking, and would be carried out manually, via a belt (using the buckle if you're a true sociopath), a "switch" - a small, whiplike sapling or tree branch, or a paddle which looks like a small cricket bat.

When I was in primary school in the 90's, it was technically still allowed by the state, and was threated by teachers, but I don't believe it was ever actually done, and I believe is illegal now.

That said, this entire thread is a shitshow and further convinces me that no one has any idea what they're doing or probably even any coherent idea of why they're raising children in the first place or what they want for those children, and reinforces my decision to opt-out of the whole idea.

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Re:Ignoring Boys' Emotional Needs Fuels Public Health Risks by fifticon on Monday June 26, 2023 @07:27AM (#36478308)
Also, car battery jumper cables are a timeless favorite for this purpose.
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Re:Ignoring Boys' Emotional Needs Fuels Public Health Risks by brazzy on Monday June 26, 2023 @08:20AM (#36478763)
> When I was in primary school in the 90's, it was technically still allowed by the state, and was threated by teachers, but I don't believe it was ever actually done, and I believe is illegal now.

In the US? Of course not. Still allowed and in fact being done: https://theconversation.com/video-shows-students-still-get-p...

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Re:Ignoring Boys' Emotional Needs Fuels Public Health Risks by flippinburgers on Tuesday June 27, 2023 @07:56AM (#36491614)
So you are opting out because you perceive others as doing something wrong. Ok.

Having a child necessitates raising the child. Rather simple.

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