"Peak bodies of paediatricians in Australia have published position statements against the use of physical punishment. For example, the Paediatric & Child Health Division of The Royal Australasian College of Physicians in their position paper have said that physical punishment is an outdated practice with adverse consequences in the long term for the child’s health, behaviour and emotional wellbeing"

http://aifs.gov.au/resources/short-articles/what-does-evidence-tell-us-about-physical-punishment-children#:~:text=The%20adverse%20impacts%20from%20physical,similar%20way%20to%20child%20abuse.

Australia is no longer a country that values children and family as it once did.

Our birth rate is below replacement level.

People who do have children are spending less time with them.

It now costs about $700 a month to raise a child.

Peter Costello was the last politician to campaign for more births. The ‘baby bonus’ saw births rise from 1.7 in 2001 to 2.02 in 2008. When the bonus was abolished in 2014, the birth rate dropped below 1.6.

The financial situation and the political situation (mass immigration) is anti-motherhood and anti-children.

Like Soviet Russia, Australian women have been dragooned into the workforce.

Talking about Peter Costello?

Humans have the intelligence, the tools, and the
natural resources to provide for a good sustainable
life as long as there are not so many humans that
we exceed the globe's carrying capacity.

All the evidence suggests that we must turn around
population growth and aim for a much smaller
population than we have today.

There should be a rejection (and condemnation) of ideas
from politicians like the one-time possibility for
Australia's PM - Peter Costello and his push for large families.
I can't remember how many kids he had. Did his wife work?

Dear Paul,

Thanks for the link.

Some people prefer opinions to facts.

"Peak bodies of paediatricians in Australia have published position statements against the use of physical punishment.

Again, all out of context. Instilling discipline has no relation to physical punishment. Just another insidious manipulation of words.

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My mother told me when I was a kid that I could fight whoever I liked as long as it was somebody bigger and stronger than me.

I always followed that rule outside the boxing ring - and still do.

My brother and I grew up without a father and we always obeyed our mother.

She worked hard to earn a living for the three of us and my brother and I looked after ourselves.

We were bush kids.

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Besides the environmental element there is also the human element, the DNA in ones development, that makes a person what they are. Humans are as varied as domestic dogs in nature, some are Poodles, others are Rottweilers, but no ones pure breed, we're all some kind of Heinz variety.

Indy, glad to hear than you don't necessarily agree with that old adage; "Spare the rod, spoil the child".