If your kids are out
of control, you need to hug them until they relax. Spanking is not illegal
unless you are caught.
Nanny State: Mom Arrested
for Spanking Her Kids After Catching Them Breaking Into a House, by Matt
Agorist, 6/22/16.
Baton Rouge, LA — A furious debate has sparked after a Baton
Rouge mother was arrested for spanking her children, ages 10, 12, and 13, after
she caught them breaking into a nearby residence.
The local district attorney has even
questioned the arrest, and the East Baton Rouge Sheriff’s department has
received complaints from as far away as California.
On Tuesday, Schaquana Evita Spears,
30, caught her three sons burglarizing their neighbor’s home, so she whipped
them as punishment. It was her choice to use an RCA cord that got her in
trouble.
According to the Sheriff’s Office
report, the kids had visible marks from the whipping. “Surely you would expect
a parent to discipline a child who is burglarizing other people’s homes as this
could be a deadly encounter for the child,” said East Baton Rouge Parish
District Attorney Hillar C. Moore III.
The boys stole a hoverboard, electronics
and socks from Lisa Nicholson, their 45-year-old neighbor. However, Spears made
the boys bring back all the items.
Even Nicholson said that the single
mother of six should be commended, not arrested. “If it was me,” she said, “I’m
gonna beat you before I let the cops kill you. I’m gonna do what I have to do.
I’m not gonna let (my children) steal and kill and do all of that. I’m not
gonna let them fall victim to the streets.”
According to the DA, Spears’ case is
under review as well as the seriousness of her sons’ injuries. “We oftentimes
see children who have no parental authority or discipline which eventually
results in delinquency and criminal acts,” Moore said. “We need more parents
who discipline their children.”
After the story broke, Louis Villa, 83,
all the way in California, called the Advocate asking where he could pay
Spears’ $2,500 bail.
“I had a single parent, and hey, she had
to discipline us. Yeah, I got hit by an ironing cord, but it made me a better
person. It saved my life,” Villa said, adding he imagined Spears might be like
his mother: a single black mom who might not have the support she needs, reports
the Advocate.
“She explained why she had to hit us,
why she had to discipline us, why we had to be home at a certain time,” Villa
said. “It just is not easy for black women in America.”
In the US, corporal punishment is legal in all 50 states.
The very idea that someone thinks they
must ask permission from the state to discipline their child is despicable.
Although this author personally believes
that the act of spanking teaches children that violence is okay in a loving
relationship and is a causal factor in making children more
aggressive later in life,
the manner in which parents interact with their children is personal and
private, and most assuredly no matter of the state.
Obviously, causing grave physical
harm to a child is child abuse, which can be argued as a separate issue.
However, the very idea that a person
should have to rely on an institution, which owes its very existence to the
monopoly it holds on the initiation of force, to supervise the private familial
act of discipline speaks volumes as to how much today’s society has aligned
itself with the dystopian fictions of the past such as Huxley’s Brave New
World, or Orwell’s 1984.
Although Spears has yet to be
convicted, it is possible that she will serve time in jail. And, her children
now face the possibility of living with foster parents. All the while, the
state will refer to this procedure as ‘justice.’
Comments
Since the UN came out
to claim that government owns your children, we have seen an increase in
government interference in family issues. Police are just as likely to arrest
moms who spank their kids as not. We have also seen an increase in drug use at
earlier ages. Families need to have clear parental rights established, so the
government can deal with real crime.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody
GA Tea Party Leader
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