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Originally Posted by rjy9343
Really? I had no idea that this debate has been happening for so long.I thought it started sometime in the late eighties. I have always heard that it was standard during the fifties and sixties and of course that is why kids were not the little heathens they are today. Of course, I grew up in the rural South, so it is entirely possible that it was the case in my little corner.
However you slice it, long memories are vital to stopping lies and keeping truth alive.
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much longer than that, in various forms...as just one example, "Marmee" in Little Women says, "I don't believe in corporal punishment, especially for girls," and pulls her daughter out of school over it. That book's over a hundred years old...