There’s a culture of rape in India right now does that mean it’s OK to carry it on? Of course not. There was a culture of slavery and racial segregation in the South does that mean we should carry it on now? Of course not. Let’s just carry that to a logical conclusion. Seriously? You were beaten as a child, so let’s just carry it on, Barkley? I find the “cultural” excuse appalling.īarkley described getting “whipped” as a child in the South and having bruises and welts on his legs. It’s culturally acceptable to hit kids in the South.įolks defending football player Adrian Peterson, like commentator and former basketball star Charles Barkley, want you to consider the Southern culture he grew up in. Using other forms of discipline doesn’t make kids soft, it makes parenting harder because you have to control yourself in order to keep control of the situation and use other methods to discipline your kids even though you want to hit them.Ģ. Getting spanked only made me do what all the research suggests: fear my parents and start lying to avoid getting in trouble. Growing up in the Midwest, I was spanked. The fact that you survived abuse doesn’t mean you should be allowed to inflict it on your own kids. I was molested as a kid, and I turned out fine too, but that doesn’t mean I think it’s okay to molest kids.
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