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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
All proven to be unsuccessful? So no happy, adjusted people were raised before 1990?
How about the great swathes of the planet where children are still raised in what modern North Americans would regard as an authoritarian, backwards fashion? Is Japanese culture the product of 'unsuccessful' parenting?
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Sorry CliffFletcher, I don't think that post came off the way I intended, poor wording I think.
I didn't mean to imply that all methods of parenting were terrible and unsuccessful back in the day, just that a lot of the methods of keeping kids in line like spanking, strapping, constant groundings have been found to lead to resentment and other issues that follow into adulthood that we never used to equate to "acceptable" physical and psychological punishment from back in the day.
Basically a child "staying in line" because he received spankings from his parents used to be viewed as proper and successful parenting skills, simply because the kid stayed in line......at the time. But then we starting finding out that physical punishment was often leading to psychological issues and heavy resentment later down the road.