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.»»
Set in London and the Dorset coast, in an era of English history where
corporal punishment was freely dispensed, the characters represent the core principles of disobedience,
chastisement and compliance.