Abuse or Punishment? by Marie-Aimée Cliche

Author:Marie-Aimée Cliche
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Published: 2014-03-17T16:00:00+00:00

“It’s because I Love Him”

The justification expressed in the form “I beat him for his own good because I love him” had not entirely disappeared, for it was still found in a dozen letters from between 1940 and 1969. This sort of approach sometimes led to conflict between the parents. One mother was devastated to find marks left by beatings on her sons of nine, seven, and five. “My husband claims he loves his children: he’s is always blaming me for being so soft with them.” A “suffering mother” described the opposite situation: it was she who spanked a disobedient little five-year-old, and she could not make her husband (who preferred to spoil the child) understand that she was doing it for the child’s “future good.” But the parents could also be in perfect agreement. A twenty-two-year-old “apprentice mother” resorted to spanking to make her little three-year-old girl better behaved and more obedient: “My husband and I both love our child and we don’t want to be ashamed when we go out with her.”29

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