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An appeals court overturns a ruling in favor of a woman spanked at work.
By Tracy Clark-Flory
January 18, 2008
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New proposed Massachusetts legislation aims to make all corporal punishment illegal.
By Carol Lloyd
November 29, 2007
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Just how "Christian" is "domestic discipline"?
By Lynn Harris
August 22, 2007
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I've seen my brother-in-law strike his kid, and I no longer want him as guardian.
By Cary Tennis
March 20, 2007
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A California bill could make spanking a crime. But when did a swat on the bum become child abuse? And how far should the government go in telling parents how to raise their children?
By Eilene Zimmerman
February 5, 2007
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A philosophical defense of the Pussycat Dolls. Also, parents to blame for anorexia?
By Tracy Clark-Flory
January 22, 2007
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Saying no to "timeouts," some fundamentalist Christians "train up" their children by carefully hitting them with switches, PVC pipes and other "chastening instruments."
By Lynn Harris
May 25, 2006
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A California woman sues her company after being paddled during a motivational event.
By Katharine Mieszkowski
April 27, 2006
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Corporal punishment at school leaves temporary welts and permanent shame.
By Ted Gup
September 4, 2001
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A sex survey in several Asian countries reveals a special love of spanking in one nation.
By Jack Boulware
March 16, 2001
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Dad hit us, Mom watched, and then -- a miracle.
By Margaret Finnegan
February 23, 2001
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Ooooh! That's gotta hurt! Shawna Kenney cracks the whip and gets paid for the pain of writing a memoir.
By Stephen Lemons
April 20, 2000
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A strange new romance is brewing between bourgeois taste and S/M styles.
By Annalee Newitz
January 15, 2000
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Nell and Cage: Crack team. Is she experienced? Bonnie Raitt spills all. Plus: The King and I -- Carter and Presley, together again.
By Amy Reiter
January 11, 2000
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Penelope Leach faces off with the Ezzos in a nasty turf war. Someone needs a spanking.
By Shelley Emling
October 26, 1999
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When women turn the other cheek, what are they asking for?
By Carson Fitzgerald
January 7, 1999
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The survival legacy of slavery taught blacks to spank more than whites -- and that's why you don't see as many black kids having public tantrums.
By Karen Grigsby Bates
October 7, 1998
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A husband from the working class squares off with his gently bred wife.
By Albert Mobilio
October 7, 1998
Spanking isn't harassment when everyone's included!
He spanks in anger
Spanking mad
Spare the quarter-inch plumbing supply line, spoil the child
The paddle's infinite sting
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