re: #77 ggt

Charles, I haven’t read Dobson since my child was young. His books, at that time —the one’s I read anyway—were helpful. I didn’t read anything about “beating your child” or force-feeding Jesus. Most of it was practical —establishing boundries —etc.

I am not a member of his organization or a follower of any religious idealogue.

Perhaps in the subesequent years, he has gained a momentum of which I am not aware.

He has clearly supporting spanking your child, but from what I recall he had very clear guidelines as to when and how. Some people are not comfortable with any form of spanking, and that is their right. Schaeffer here uses the phrase “whipping”, but that could be interpreted two different ways. I just think that some may see that term and not equate it with spanking but actual whips.