Foster care in Texas: The issue in the spanking case isn’t spanking

Richard Wexler

Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Foster care in Texas: The issue in the spanking case isn’t spanking

Now making its way up the media food chain, via multiple blogs, is the story of the mother in Corpus Christi, Texas, sentenced to five years probation for spanking her child. Unfortunately, much of the discussion has been simply a rehash of the tired debate over spanking.

The real issues are consigning children to foster care over a spanking, and a judge who went well beyond so-called judicial activism all the way to judicial vigilantism.  FULL STORY