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QotD: America's Killers

Jan 16, 2011 19:01

America produces remorseless killers in bulk. One hundred years ago, Jack the Ripper riveted the attention of the Western world by doing away with five people. This culture would barely notice such modest exploits--so many have surpassed the quaintly amateurish Ripper that we cannot remember their names, much less their crimes. Squadrons of ( Read more... )

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bloomingmom January 19 2011, 01:52:03 UTC

but.... dr. spock espoused affection and went against the accepted norm of letting infants "cry it out" - stating that infants could not be spoiled by affection.
(some one sent me one of his parenting books, circa 1960ish)

Dr Spock liveonearth January 19 2011, 02:01:08 UTC

Oh, I thought he was the guy that said to let them cry themselves to sleep! Who was THAT? And thanks for correcting me. =-]

Re: Dr Spock bloomingmom January 19 2011, 14:46:03 UTC

I think spock was pretty ground breaking in his assertions that infants and children should be respected as individuals and attended to when they cried. everyone else in the ummm..... 40's through to the 60's toed the strict, make'm toe a schedule/line, authoritarian parenting stuff. Not certain who originated the strict withdrawn parenting style- though in reading dickens i think that was the norm for a long while.

Re: Dr Spock liveonearth January 19 2011, 20:43:48 UTC

Goodness what an awful norm.... Glad that we're headed the opposite direction now, though the effects of one couple's neglective/abusive parenting spills through generations....