Caning experiment
Sir,—l suppose I should consider myself properly told off by your correspondent, B. Roberts (October 26). As I read her letter my reaction was to wonder what light is shed on the subject by such impressive quoting from Shakespeare about ladies protesting and embracing gentlemen. She may be interested to know that my wife never protests about her occasional beatings; that would be unsporting. My original letter with its “silly extensions” was designed to point out the folly of the argument that any form of corporal punishment is necessarily harmful. Of course violence concerns me, but I am far from being convinced that to smack a naughty child is likely to turn him into a violent social deviate. To make corporal punishment illegal is to remove the right of the parent to discipline, and the right of the child to be disciplined.— Yours, etc., i
ROSS LINDSAY. October 27, 1981.
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