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Michael K. Ferber, a second-year Harvard graduate student, and four other men--including Dr. Benjamin Spock, the noted pediatrician, and William Sloan Coffin Jr., Yale University chaplain--were indicted by a federal grand jury in Boston Friday on charges of conspiring to counsel young men to violate the draft laws...
...American Civil Liberties Union has offered to defend the five, and Ferber and some of the others have accepted. Dr. Spock said he is retaining his own lawyer. Washington criminal lawyer Edward Bennett Williams is rumored to be considering taking the case for the ACLU...
According to the indictment, Coffin, Goodman, Raskin, and Dr. Spock agreed to sponsor a nation-wide draft-resistance program that would include disrupting the induction processes at various induction centers, making public appeals for young men to resist the draft and to refuse to serve in the military services, and issuing calls for registrants to turn in their draft cards...
With their own uncertainties, U.S. parents lead the world in gobbling child-care books; Spock's sales recently passed 20.5 million. Whatever their merits, the books produce a good many faddishly permissive parents. Often a father is more involved in living up to his child's expectations than the child is in living up to his. To avoid "hurting" children, he shields them from adult power, indulges their impulses, and thus inflicts the injury that a New York headmaster calls "denial of denial." Such children are stunned when they discover that parents don't practice what they...
...have to be limited and redirected." How and when to set limits depends partly on the child's age. Nothing makes a small child more anxious than being asked if he "wants" to do this or that and then being given reasons as to why he should. Dr. Spock, sometimes accused of permissiveness, firmly advises, "Just do what's necessary." In short: time for bed, lights out, no chatter...