violence against children (1)


THE POPE OF ROME ENDORSES VIOLENCE AGAINST CHILDREN.
When I was a child growing up in the Republic of Ireland in the 1960 and 1970s , our primary and secondary schools were provided with canes for hitting us with. Most if not all schools throughout the Republic of Ireland at that time were provided with canes for hitting the children with and the school teachers had permission to hit us even when we were eighteen years old and over provided we were still attending secondary school at that age. I have asked in the past for the total amount of tax payers money which was spent on canes for the entire nineteen sixties decade. In my own primary school, some of the children once hid the cane on the school teacher. He then went down the road outside the school and broke a stick from a tree and brought it back to the classroom in order to hit us with it. Because of this type of papacy endorsed corporal punishment I grew up to be anxious and nervous and extremely fearful of false authority figures. It took me many years to regain my current equilibrium. I am drawing attention to this matter because I wish that future generations of children throughout the world are allowed to live without physical violence, and further to that I strongly distrust the Pope of Rome and the Jesuits and I wish to see them overthrown because they are believed my many to be behind the attempt at a one world government where we would not be allowed to own anything and they themselves would own everything. We would not be able to challenge them ever again because our bodies would be embedded with technology which would be wirelessly linked to a cruel and sadastic control system. This has already happened to many but whenever they come forward with information about this situation they are being wrongly classified as being mentally ill. To support my claims of the Pope of Rome's endorcement of corporal punishment I enclose relevant information which I found online and also the link to that online information herebelow:-
http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2015/2/no-pope-francis-theres-nothing-beautiful-about-hitting-a-child.html


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No, Pope Francis, there's nothing 'beautiful' about hitting a child
Pontiff ignores decades of medical literature on corporal punishment – and survivors like me
February 15, 2015 2:00AM ET
by Stacey Patton @DrStaceyPatton
Pope Francis has officially lost his revolutionary cred. Known for his willingness to challenge church doctrine, to bring religion into the 21st century and to speak truth to power, he clearly hasn’t gotten an updated parenting manual. He appears to still be reading from a 17th-century edition that advised Europeans that children could be possessed by a devil that should be driven out with a rod of correction.

During a recent general weekly audience, the pope decided to offer some advice to the world’s parents. “One time, I heard a father in a meeting with married couples say, ‘I sometimes have to smack my children a bit, but never in the face, so as to not humiliate them,’” he told the audience. “How beautiful!”

He then praised the father’s actions, saying, “He knows the sense of dignity. He has to punish them but does it justly and moves on.”

Did somebody slip a mickey in the pontiff’s communal chalice?

There is nothing beautiful or dignified about physically assaulting a child. At its core, corporal punishment — legalized brutality — is about intentionally causing pain. It is a form of humiliation that denies children the right to bodily integrity and puts them at risk for a slew of negative behaviors. If Francis had stopped — or sent one of his many researchers to the Vatican Library — to look at more than 60 years of medical literature, he would realize the numerous harms that come from smacking a kid.

The pediatrics, child development and psychological communities around the globe are in agreement that corporal punishment does not work to get children to comply. Parents will often repeat and escalate the intensity of hitting, placing children in danger. Scientists have repeatedly found that lightly spanking a child, even occasionally, is tied to mental disorders, drug and alcohol abuse, aggressive behavior and hyperactivity and juvenile delinquency. The trajectory of brain development can be altered when a caretaker spanks the gray matter (literally) out of their skulls, which leads to lowered verbal intelligence and decision-making skills as well as imbalances of the hormones cortisol and oxytocin, which can lead to an impaired ability to regulate emotions and risky sexual behavior.

In providing a moral justification for abuse and brutality, the pope's comments are another reminder of the false promises of a church that speaks for power.
And if science isn’t his cup of tea, the pope should simply talk to survivors like me. I guarantee they wouldn’t utter the words “dignity” and “beautiful,” unless the architecture of their brains have been damaged sufficiently that they’ve convinced themselves that being hit was an act of love that made them better people.

The pope’s endorsement of hitting as long as it is done with “dignity” suggests that he, like so many, see violence as both necessary and empowering as long as it is imagined as transformative. Such efforts to reconstitute abuse and violence as love and empowerment share an ethos with those who seek to influence behavior through violence. And they are particularly disturbing in a world in which kids are routinely beaten and brutalized in their homes, in juvenile facilities, on the streets, at checkpoints, in schools and in war zones.

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