Reply #24: Yes [View All]

[bhairava]

The prisons are full of people who were spanked and taught that violence is an appropriate means of conflcit resolution. They are also full of illiterates and believers in the death penalty (which is, of course the law of the streets!) I can assure you as someone who has worked with both kids and adults in such institutions that violence in the home (and rape and incest: frequent fellow travelers of violence since they are about the imposition and triumph of one person's will over another's) is ever present. The only exceptions are abandonment and neglect cases and these kids are simply subject to violence from other adults.