1.   Conroy said he believed the pendulum had swung back toward the belief that children should be punished.

2.   Do threats to punish the child remain unfulfilled?

3.   Smacking is not an acceptable way of punishing a child.

4.   The moral way to resolve the problem is to keep people from entering rather than punishing their children once they are here.

5.   It was not at all unusual to punish children by shutting them in a room and leaving them there.

6.   And they have charged that law enforcement and social services agents have interfered with their religious freedoms by seeking to impose limits on how they punish their children.

7.   Apart from the concerns expressed by anti-abortion groups, many Democrats say the proposal would punish innocent children.

8.   But opponents argued that the family cap punished children for the mistakes of their parents.

9.   Democrats say the House bill is harsher, and punishes children for the behavior of their parents.