Mindchild	Re: BEAT that Child!
	Thanks Farkel for bringing this to light. I do think they have mellowed out some on the offical line of beating kids but still the damage has been done to the earlier generations. What most people don't realize is that men who often beat their wives have themselves been beaten as a child. This doesn't justify beating anyone but harm you receive as a youngster can and often does express itself in later generations. My grandfather was a JW and he beat my father, and my father in turn beat me...this is the way it was passed down. It doesn't always have to happen this way but I think when religion gives the green light to excessive spanking and beating then it opens the flood gates to child abuse. Everyone should know that the abuse can go beyond physical attacks as well. I personally know of Witnesses who lock their kids in closets for an entire day at a time, who will make them go an entire day without eating for saying a negative remark about supper, and Witnesses who control and shelter their kids so much...they are completely disfunctional. This is abuse in a different way, but still abuse. I think you are right Conflicted...the WTS is breeding abusers. Skipper "The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves that we are underlings." - William Shakespeare
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