The only thing worse than the woman giving him this gift is the fact this man kept the goddamned thing for nearly fifty years before she finally opened it for him. Meanwhile the dude was married, and somehow his wife allowed that bullshit.
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This is the stupidest goddamned thing I ever heard of in my entire life:
It HAS to be some millennial idiot who came up with some twisted idea about what the song was really about. Nobody else would be so dumb as to think an entirely innocent song written in the early 1940s could have a sinister meaning.
I have the song on my playlist. I intend to play it for the holidays.
Oh, what the hell. I like Dean Martin's version:
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You'd think after all these years and all the evidence, people would realize that hitting kids--"corporal punishment"--is wrong and ineffective. It damages kids and is often accompanied by verbal abuse. As somebody who was verbally abused as a child and well into adulthood, I can attest to the longterm damage such abuse does.
A lot of this support for beating kids--"spanking" trivializes what is abuse-- is from dimwits who think because their parents beat the shit out of them and probably denigrated them verbally, that they turned out okay, so it is okay to do the same with their kids.
No such legislation exists in the United States. The American Academy of Pediatrics recently released a policy statement confirming its opposition to corporal punishment (any form of physical punishment, including spanking), stating that it’s harmful and ineffective. That conclusion is backed up by health professionals and extensive research.
According to Catherine A. Taylor, associate professor of global community health and behavioral sciences at Tulane University School of Tropical Medicine, whose research was heavily cited in the AAP policy statement, “corporal punishment increases risk for all kinds of health problems.”
Research published in the Journal of Family Psychology in 2016 found that despite the wide use of spanking, there was no evidence linking spanking to improved child behavior. On the contrary; spanking was found to be associated with increased risk of 13 detrimental outcomes, including aggression, antisocial behavior, impaired cognitive ability, mental health problems and physical injury.
Parenting is a privilege. As a parent, you have no right to beat the shit out of your kids. They aren't your property.
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