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 Footnotes for "Our View of Children"

1 Some parenting authors teach that "chastisement", "chastening" and "spanking" are synonymous. This is a misunderstanding based on an oversimplification of the terms; chastisement and chastening carry a broader meaning: correcting by punishment for the purpose of reclaiming an offender, afflicting by other means (see, for example, Psalm 69:10, "I chastened my soul with fasting"), to reduce to order or obedience; to restrain; to awe; to repress; to correct; to purify by expunging faults.

2 Barbara Curtis, "Whose Way, After All?", available on the Internet at http://www.fix.net/~rprewett/curtis.html