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by Anonymous on May 30th, 2004

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Did Dr. Spock have critics? If so, on what points did they disagree with him?

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  • by Merry Walker on June 1st, 2004

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    Despite the overwhelming popularity of the book now known as "Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care," Benjamin Spock was not without his critics. In the 1960's, Vice President Spiro T. Agnew, mayor of Chicago Richard J. Daley, and Norman Vincent Peale, a New York Methodist Episcopal clergyman and writer, were among those who publicly spoke out against Dr. Spock's parenting recommendations. They felt that Dr. Spock's recommendations against spanking and for increased permissiveness, along with his assurances to parents that raising children should be "fun, had led to a breakdown in discipline and conventional morality in the younger generation. Nor did it help that Dr. Spock had become an anti-war demonstrator. As Norman Vincent Peale said from his pulpit: "And now Spock is out in the mobs, leading the permissive babies raised on his undisciplined teaching."

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