She notes in a recent article for a professional journal that at least one GFI publication she has reviewed advised parents to avoid spanking their children in public, to be careful
about neighbors hearing their children's cries in apartment buildings and «to instruct one's children not to tell anyone — even the child's other parent in a divorce situation —
about occurring
chastisement (GFI's euphemism for corporal punishment), due to potential «misunderstandings.»»