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Spare the Child by Philip J. Greven, Jr.
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Mar 03, 1992 | ISBN 9780679733386

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Praise

“The great value of Spare the Child lies in its shock of awareness. The subject enters our minds and hearts in a new way, and we are forced to imagine a world in which the hitting of a child is against the laws of both man and God.” —Chicago Tribune

“The force of Greven’s case serves to drive the reader to the book’s conclusion….You cannot read [it] without reviewing your most fundamental attitudes about human behavior.” —The New York Times

“An imaginative and impassioned book.” —The New York Times Book Review

“A gift from an enlightened historian to every person. It provides us with crucial information ignored or silenced throughout the world. A step toward a more enlightened and peaceful society.” —Alice Miller, author of For Your Own Good

Table Of Contents

Acknowledgments

PART I. The Problem

PART II. Experiences

Moral Suasion and Nonviolence
Before Conscious Memory Begins
Memories of Pain and Punishments
Disciplined Death


PART III. Rationales

Religious Rationales
Biblical Roots
Eternal Punishment
Breaking Wills
Methodologies of Punishment
The Last Resort


Secular Rationales
Judicial Justifications
Behaviorist Arguments


PART IV. Consequences
Anxiety and Fear
Anger and Hate
Empathy and Apathy
Melancholy and Depression
Obsessiveness and Rigidity
Ambivalence: Protect and Destroy
Dissociation
Paranoia
Sadomasochism
Domestic Violence
Aggression and Delinquency
Authoritarianism
The Apocalyptic Impulse


PART V. Choices

Notes
Index

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