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Description:Share via Email Britain's obsession with parenting skills reached a new pitch yesterday when demonstrators picketed a chapel where a Christian fundamentalist couple were preaching the virtues of corporal punishment for children. Gary and Anne-Marie Ezzo brought their 'Babywise' roadshow to Westminster Chapel, an interdenominational church in the centre of London, prompting demonstrations from health visitors and cries of outrage from children's organisations. The Ezzos say that children as young as 18 months should be spanked to teach them the difference between right and wrong, that infants must be taught to gain independence from their parents by being left on their own for long periods, and that 'emotional mothering can set the stage for child abuse'. The pair sell an week babycare programme, which has caught on with Christian and non-Christian parents in the States. They claim that corporal punishment is not central to their philosophy, but Gary Ezzo is an evangelist for spanking who likes to talk in detail about methods. Clutching the results of a newspaper poll that showed that 70 per cent of British parents spank their children, Ezzo said:

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