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[[Liberals]] have opposed spanking of children and sometimes even threaten to take children away from parents who use this corporal punishment.  In some states a foster parent cannot spank a foster child.  Claiming to draw upon the latest research on brain development, Alice Miller speaks out against the increasing popularity of childhood corporal punishment and demonstrates how spanking and other disciplinary traumas are encoded in the brain, stunting our ability to overcome them. Our bodies retain memories of humiliation, causing panoply of physical ills and dangerous levels of denial. This denial, necessary for the child's survival, leads to emotional blindness and finally to mental barriers that cut off awareness and the ability to learn new ways of acting. If this cycle repeats itself, the grown child will perpetrate the same abuse on later generations, warns Miller.<ref>[http://www.naturalchild.org/alice_miller/booklist.html ]</ref>

[[Liberals]] have opposed spanking of children and sometimes even threaten to take children away from parents who use this corporal punishment.  In some states a foster parent cannot spank a foster child.  Claiming to draw upon the latest research on brain development, Alice Miller speaks out against the increasing popularity of childhood corporal punishment and demonstrates how spanking and other disciplinary traumas are encoded in the brain, stunting our ability to overcome them. Our bodies retain memories of humiliation, causing panoply of physical ills and dangerous levels of denial. This denial, necessary for the child's survival, leads to emotional blindness and finally to mental barriers that cut off awareness and the ability to learn new ways of acting. If this cycle repeats itself, the grown child will perpetrate the same abuse on later generations, warns Miller.<ref>[http://www.naturalchild.org/alice_miller/booklist.html ]</ref>

In a broad sense, corporal punishments include flogging, beating, branding, mutilation, blinding, and the use of the stock and pillory. The Torah ([[Judaism]]) describes some forms of corporal punishment for certain crimes and sins.

In a broad sense, corporal punishments include flogging, beating, branding, mutilation, blinding, and the use of the stock and pillory. The Torah ([[Judaism]]) describes some forms of corporal punishment for certain crimes and sins. The [[Bible]] contains seven verses that may relate to the spanking of children.

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