No Fear: Kids with No Fear, Parents with No Control, Violence with No End, a Police Officer's Perspective

by Robert R. Surgenor

In his eighteen years of service as a law enforcement officer, Detective Robert Surgenor has witnessed an alarming rise in defiance and a total lack of fear in America's youth.Interviewing hundreds of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1577361598
• ISBN13: 9781577361596
• Release Date: December 1999
• Publisher: Providence House Publishers
• Length: 238 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

READ THIS BOOK!

This book is a "must read" for anyone with questions about whether or not you should spank your child. It is also a "must read" for educators, legislators, and those clinicians who say "spanking is wrong and only teaches violence". Very well-written by a career police officer with children of his own, the author is able to cite statistics from the real world about the increase in domestic violance BY CHILDREN AGAINST THEIR PARENTS - and how high those numbers are when the child has had NO corporal punishment at home. The author also writes at length about how the most violent juvenile offenders he sees are nearly unanimously from homes where there was no spanking! He writes clearly and concisely, and in terms you can understand. He also manages to yank apart all of the popular non-spanking theories of the day. He is also an amateur Biblical scholar, but is well-read enough that he can debunk the religion-based theories against spanking, quoting chapter and verse. READ THIS BOOK is you are raising children in your home!

Well researched, and useful

As a parent, I know that my child behaved before she reached the age of reason in part because she knew that IF she stepped over the line, she WOULD receive that spanking! Her knowledge that I wasn't afraid to use it was enough to make it a rare occasion. That knowledge may have saved her from a terrible fall one day when I was forced to scream at her while bolting up the stairs so she didn't catapult herself over the balcony while bouncing on a chair she had pulled over to the railing without my knowledge. She froze at my screams, and it didn't take but a tap on the bottom when I reached her to make sure she didn't do it again. The spanking and noise so impressed her, I didn't need to do it again for several years. It was FEAR of spanking that controlled her behavior when I said "No!"As a child abuse defense attorney living in New Hampshire, I also have to fight the effects of radical anti-spanking professor Murray Straus and other "experts" the state Division of Children, Youth, and Families call in to testify that spanking is harmful. Eli Newberger, of Boston Children's hospital, testified in one of my cases that he believed in parental spanking. In HIS book, "The Men They Will Become," he states that he believes the US should ban it, as have Sweden and other countries (p. 81). Bob Surgenor balances the shoddy research of the anti-spankers like Murray Straus and Eli Newberger with sound facts, and correctly points out that above all, spanking works. I highly recommend this book, especially for parents that are having problems early on. Getting your child's attention early saves a lot of problems down the road!

My Opinion, by Ptl. David Swaffield (retired)

After reading Det. Surgenor's book, I was very, very impressed. I, too, am a Christian police officer (retired, 27.5 yrs. service) like Surgenor. I have seen FAR more than I ever wanted to see, and I find Det. Surgenor's research to be very well researched. It is apparent that reviewer Mr. Dugan is unfamilier with the gathering of juvenile statistical data. All police officers are aware of the shortcomings of the Uniform Crime Reports and know from firsthand experience that Surgenor's claim that juvenile crime is skyrocketing is accurate. Mr. Dugan's attempts to destroy Surgenor's statistics are born of ignorance of the system (ignorance is bliss...?) As a retired police officer, I have researched Surgenor's figures and have found them to be right on the button. Thank you for the oppurtunity to rebute Dugan's 'expert' opinion.

An Important Book!

No Fear is an excellent book! Robert Surgenor's careful research and analysis of the causes of the horrendous rise in juvenile crime would be helpful to anyone. Parents of young children who seem defiant or "troubled" would be wise to read this before their children are "too far gone" to be reached. I always thought there was some correlation to the non-punitive discipline methods advocated today and the rise in juvenile crime. No Fear has just confirmed it. I highly recommend it!

Another Police Officer's Perspective

It is a shame that a book like this had to be written. Author Surgenor probes the reasons behind today's rising tide of juvenile crime. And it is rising. The book includes figures from the FBI's Uniform Crime Reports that show the direction the problem is going. American society is breeding a new generation of adult criminals right now. Unlike the social apologists who can do nothing but wring their hands, Surgenor offers solutions. It is all there by someone who knows what he is about.