Spare the Child... - Brian Knowles - March 1976

Brian Knowles

"Spare the rod and spoil the child," says the old axiom. Is spanking - corporal punishment - the most important aspect of effective child rearing? In an age when child beating is at an unhealthy high, perhaps it would be better to spare the child! Dr. Rowine Hayes Brown, medical director of Cook County Chicago Hospital, recently estimated that some 500,000 children are "severely injured each year [in the United States] as a result of beatings. She said that the death rate for children admitted to hospitals after whippings is 10 percent and that the majority of deaths are due to skull fractures, burns, concussions and injuries to internal organs. - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library