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  • adjective Opposed to the spanking of children.

Etymologies

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anti- +‎ spanking

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Examples

  • There is good reason to believe that most, if not all, of the research that fuels antispanking arguments is tainted by ideological bias on the part of the researchers in question.

    Parenting by the Book John Rosemond 2007

  • The usual antispanking argument consists of three equally misleading assertions:

    Parenting by the Book John Rosemond 2007

  • If they eventually succeed, antispanking law will put us on a slippery slope leading straight to Hillary Clinton’s collectivist “village,” where the elite few—as wryly expressed by columnist Thomas Sowell—“impose their superior wisdom and virtue on parents.”

    Parenting by the Book John Rosemond 2007

  • For antispanking hysterics, Lieber’s law was only a test case.

    Parenting by the Book John Rosemond 2007

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