"Beloved and beaten" is a phrase that best depicts how many African American children ? past and present ? are disciplined.
It is an authoritative type of African-American parenting discipline style that is painfully revered. Yet, in too many incidents, it continues to be uncritically passed along generationally.
When Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson was indicted on allegation of child abuse, he admitted to using the disciplinary methods passed down by his father.
The Rev. Irene Monroe looks at the roots of African-American corporal punishment of children, and urges us to break from from a shackle of our past.
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