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DID THE SPANKING VIDEO GONE VIRAL LEAD TO THIS TEEN’S DEATH?
MademeNoire
By Veronica Wells
Dec. 14, 2011
Stacey Patton, founder of the web site SparetheKids.com told Black America Web that after that video, she’s not surprised that Michael’s life ended violently.
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http://madamenoire.com/118553/did-the-spanking-video-gone-viral-lead-to-this-teens-death/
VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN, VIOLENCE AGAINST CHILDREN
EBONY MAGAZINE
JUNE 13, 2012
When Creflo Dollar took to the pulpit on Sunday, the congregation at World Changers International was waiting to hear if he would address the allegations that he was involved in a violent altercation with his daughter only a few days prior.
Read more here: http://www.ebony.com/news-views/violence-against-women-violence-against-children-is-there-a-difference#axzz3E0E3zOwQ
SOME BLACK PARENTS SEE PHYSICAL DISCIPLINE AS A DUTY. THE NAACP SHOULDN’T AGREE.
The Washington Post
By Stacey Patton
June 22, 2012
This debate — over whether Dollar was appropriately disciplining his daughter or abusing her, and whether physical violence is needed to rear a child properly — is an old one in the black community. The fact that this debate is still happening shows what little progress black Americans have made in peacefully teaching their children right from wrong. For some, beating children is a legacy of having been abused for centuries by a racist society.
Read more here: http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/some-black-parents-see-physical-discipline-as-a-duty-the-naacp-shouldnt-agree/2012/06/22/gJQAyo5ovV_story.html
SPARE THE KIDS
Portland Parenting Magazine
By Carisa Brewster
Oct. 1, 2013
Fifty years ago, most parents wouldn’t have given a second thought to spanking their child as a punishment. However, in recent years, the public conversation around the use of physical punishment to discipline children has begun to change increasingly from acceptance to disapproval. – See more at: http://www.portlandfamily.com/posts/spare-the-kids/#sthash.h4kssQ57.dpuf
Read more here: http://www.portlandfamily.com/posts/spare-the-kids/
HOW WE GOT TO FERGUSON
THE DAILY BEAST
By David Masciotra
Aug. 8, 2014
Stacey Patton almost invents a new genre in her book of memoir and history, That Mean Old Yesterday. A victim of child abuse turned advocate for the abused, Patton presents an air-tight case that corporal punishment in black families goes directly back to the physical abuse slave owners used to discipline, punish, and control slaves. She also details the societal violation of childhood robbery.
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http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/08/23/how-we-got-to-ferguson-a-reading-list.html
CHARLES BARKLEY DEFENDS IT, CRIS CARTER DECRIES IT, BUT STUDIES SHOW SPANKING CAN CHANGE BRAIN CHEMISTRY
THE WASHINGTON POST
By Soraya Nadia McDonald
Sept. 15, 2014
Said researcher Stacey Patton: “Children who are spanked don’t have the option to flee or fight – they must submit to the pain and violence without grabbing, blocking, or defending against the assault to their body. Corporal punishment triggers the release of cortisol.”
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/09/15/charles-barkley-defends-it-cris-carter-decries-it-but-studies-show-spanking-can-change-brain-chemistry/
EXPERT: LINE BETWEEN DISCIPLINE AND CHILD ABUSE A “GRAY BLUR”
CBS NEWS
Sept. 16, 2014
Chronicle of Higher Education reporter Stacey Patton said that she wasn’t surprised by Barkley’s comments, saying research shows that African Americans are more likely to embrace corporal punishment than other groups. “This is seen by many as part of a cultural tradition and coming out against it, some people think of it as disrespecting our culture, disrespecting our mothers and the way we do things,” said Patton, who is the founder of Spare the Kids, a group that opposes corporal punishment.
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http://www.cbsnews.com/news/adrian-peterson-case-line-between-discipline-and-child-abuse-a-gray-blur/
THERE’S NO RATIONALIZATION FOR CORPORAL PUNISHMENT: WHY ADRIAN PETERSON’S APOLOGISTS ARE WRONG
Salon
By Kirsten West-Savali
Sept. 17, 2014
“Black America really needs to evolve its conversation on this kind of domestic violence because the powers that be are aware of our attachment to and celebration of this practice and they are using it against us to feed the prison pipeline and the foster care industry,” says Dr. Stacey Patton, Senior Reporter at The Chronicle of Higher Education, anti-spanking advocate and founder of Spare The Kids. “So as we sit on Facebook and other social media sites waging this debate, joking about the issue, and lying about how hitting children is responsible and loving Black parenting, laws and policies are being put into place to trip us up.”
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http://www.salon.com/2014/09/17/theres_no_rationalization_for_corporate_punishment_what_adrian_petersons_get_hopelessly_wrong_partner/
ABUSE OR DISCIPLINE: PETERSON CASE SPURS CULTURAL DEBATE
WTOP
Sept. 17, 2014
An advocate against child abuse tells WTOP that the African- American community has to talk honestly about the use of corporal punishment to discipline children and no longer wear the practice “like a badge of honor.”
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http://www.wtop.com/1411/3703922/The-debate-Abuse-or-discipline
PARENTING WITH PETE: KIDS NEED DISCIPLINE, NOT HITTING
THE JERSEY JOURNAL
By Peter Herbst
Sept. 18, 2014
In her memoir, “That Mean Old Yesterday,” former New Jersey foster child Stacey Patton describes the brutal treatment meted out to African American slaves as the origin for the current use of corporal punishment in the black community.
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http://www.nj.com/jjournal-news/index.ssf/2014/09/kids_need_discipline_not_hitti.html
CHILDREN’S MERCY HOSPITAL’S NO HIT ZONE IS PART OF MOVEMENT URGING PARENTS NOT TO STRIKE THEIR CHILDREN
KANSAS CITY STAR
By Edward M. Eveld
Sept. 20, 2014
Former NBA star Charles Barkley further lit up the debate on “The NFL Today” show on CBS by saying, “Whipping — we do that all the time. … Every black parent in the South is going to be in jail under those circumstances.” If Barkley’s statement shocked, it rang true for Stacey Patton, an African-American journalist and child advocate.
Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/living/family/article2182555.html#storylink=cpy
UNDERSTANDING BLACK AMERICAN AND THE SPANKING DEBATE
BBC NEWS By Stacey Patton
Sept. 20, 2014
The NFL football star Adrian Peterson’s child abuse scandal has sparked a national debate in America about spanking children and the growing illegality of certain kinds of “abusive” corporal punishments. In a personal piece, author Stacey Patton describes the complex legacy of corporal punishment in black America.
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http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-29261462
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