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Spare the Kids

Why Whupping Children Won't Save Black America

by Stacey Patton
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A necessary challenge to the cultural tradition of corporeal punishment in Black homes—and its connections to white supremacy.

Encourages positive, nonviolent discipline for those rearing, teaching, and caring for children of color.
Why do so many African Americans have such a special attachment to whupping children? Studies show that nearly 80 percent of Black parents see spanking, popping, pinching, and beating as reasonable, effective ways to teach respect and to protect black children from the streets, incarceration, encounters with racism, or worse. However, the consequences of this widely accepted approach to child-rearing are far-reaching and seldom discussed. Dr. Stacey Patton’s extensive research suggests that corporal punishment is a crucial factor in explaining why Black folks are subject to disproportionately higher rates of school suspensions and expulsions, criminal prosecutions, improper mental health diagnoses, child abuse cases, and foster care placements, which too often funnel abused and traumatized children into the prison system.
Weaving together race, religion, history, popular culture, science, policing, psychology, and personal testimonies, Dr. Patton connects what happens at home to what happens in the streets in a way that is thought-provoking, unforgettable, and deeply sobering.

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    March 21, 2017

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      • ISBN: 9780807061053
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      • ISBN: 9780807061053
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    • English

  • Reviews

    • Library Journal

      February 1, 2017

      Spare the rod, spoil the child? Journalist and child advocate Patton (That Mean Old Yesterday) examines the Old Testament proverb in the prism of U.S. history, spanning the era of slavery to the current Black Lives Matter movement. Focusing on the controversy within and without the black community about the corporal punishment of black children, Patton argues against whipping as an extension of a slave mentality fostered under the master's lash and extended in segregationist Southern schools' paddling. She garners testimony from black clergy, child psychologists, physicians, prosecutors, and police as evidence of "whupping's" harm. The author presses readers with cold, hard truths and ugly realities about the interconnected violence American children face in their homes, in their schools, in the streets, and from their parents. The personal and generational damage Patton lays bare indicts a fearful culture of violence and implicates not only conceptions of good parenting among African Americans but among Americans at large. VERDICT This is a must-read for all concerned about the welfare of children, about America's future, and about the U.S. Constitution's pledge of "We the people" to secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity.--Thomas J. Davis, Arizona State Univ., Tempe

      Copyright 2017 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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