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Good morning. Today’s temperatures: Logan: 50 - 82° 🌤️ | 10% 💧 Salt Lake City: 63 - 84° 🌦️ | 10% 💧 St. George: 67 - 90° ⛈️ | 20% 💧 On Sept. 12, 1964, Lyndon B. Johnson established Canyonlands National Park, a place that holds a special place in my heart. My family has a tradition of taking each preteen on a "10-year-old outing." The rite of passage usually takes the form of a backpacking trip with one or both parents. And mine was a week long expedition through Canyonlands! Also on our mind: Vice President Kamala Harris evades a question about abortion on "Face the Nation," St. George broke a rainfall record set nearly a century ago and Zach Wilson entered for injured Aaron Rodgers in the Jets’ season opener
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| Where is the line between discipline and abuse? |
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| | The arrest of a once-popular video blogger who advocated tough-love parenting and her business associate in southwestern Utah has revitalized conversations about when discipline becomes child abuse or neglect, writes family policy reporter Lois Collins. Ruby Franke vlogged on her “8 Passengers” YouTube channel and enjoyed 2.5 million followers at one time, though her ideas on parenting increasingly drew criticism as being harsh and the channel disappeared for unknown reasons earlier this year, as the Deseret News reported. Her associate, Jodi Hildebrandt, licensed as a clinical mental health expert, was also arrested. The two have been charged with six counts of aggravated child abuse. They remain in custody without bail. Both were arrested after Franke’s 12-year-old went to the home of one of Hildebrandt’s neighbors in what police described as a malnourished condition, asking for food and water. Where is the line between discipline and abuse and how does one know when the line has been crossed? The Deseret News turned to research and interviewed experts. They were not asked to comment on the Franke and Hildebrandt cases, but rather to address questions of where the line lies between teaching a child to behave and methods that could be abuse or neglect. “Discipline means ‘to teach.’ Harsh methods of discipline, whether physical acts of commission or omission like withholding food, really send a wrong message to children on how to correct behavior as they are developing and learning right from wrong,” said Dr. Allison M. Jackson, division chief of the Child & Adolescent Protection Center and a professor at Children’s National Hospital. |
Read more about the negative effects of using corporal punishment to "discipline." |
| The adult content website OnlyFans has been hailed as a form of “female empowerment,” giving women a chance to “own” what they create and share via subscriptions. But less discussed in the public conversation about OnlyFans is actually what the “content creators” are creating, and at whose expense, writes ideas and culture editor Jennifer Graham. “The women (on OnlyFans) are poor and desperate, often to put food on the table; a lot of them are from eastern Europe or the global South; and their bodies are being commodified and monetized by OnlyFans,” said Gail Dines, the founder and president of the anti-pornography organization Culture Reframed. Any discussion of the morality of such work is often scorned as “moral panic.” But given the addictive nature of pornography and its harmful effects on children (who are being exposed at ever younger ages), the sly mainstreaming of sexually explicit content is not as benign as the platform wants us to believe. Meanwhile, there are young women still using the platform who have yet to discover that although men cannot physically touch them on OnlyFans, they know how to take a screen grab. And these images will live forever on the internet — long after they, too, have realized the money was not worth the degradation. According to Variety, OnlyFans had more than 3 million creators as of November 2022, and more than 238 million subscribers. Read more about the stories of women whose lives have been negatively affected by the website. |
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