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Since you brought up credentials instead of empirical evidence I have to say that being an anthropologist lowers your credibility in my view. I've seen to many examples of famous anthropologists such as Margaret Mead blatantly distorting data on child abuse in order to make it fit into preconceived notions of cultural relativism to take anything from the field at face value without substantial supporting evidence.

Which is what? Society has failed to collapse in spite of widespread use of spankings?

You could answer that question if you watched the video series I linked in my original post.

If you want more historical context for the effects that different ways of treating children has on entire civilizations you could take a look at this book.

Unless, of course, you'd like the assert that the vast majority of all youths from prior to the those born in the last decade or so (when it because trendy to sling around terms like Child Abuse and dilute their true meaning) were all abused children?

Why don't you look at some of the evidence regarding historical levels of child abuse and then come back and say whether or not this is an unreasonable statement.

http://www.psychohistory.com/htm/05_history.html

if gay marriage was legalized how could you not then legalize 2 sisters getting married.

For the same reason you wouldn't have a brother and sister having sex and getting married - that is called incest. Incest is always wrong.

Although, siblings living together (in an non-incestuous manner) should be afforded the same rights and privileges as married couples and homosexual couples.

psycho- is how it's spelled. psi upsilon chi (omicron|omega) is the root, from Ancient Greek

and it's Foundation

and birth, not born

otherwise, good English.

now, as to "psychohistory": it seems that someone beat you to the punch. The problem with predicting human behavior is that humans and human society are very complex systems. Read up on your complexity theory and chaos theory.

OK everyone, there is a science of psychohistory. It already exists. Check out www.psychohistory.com.

We know how people act individually, and yet we can't extrapolate the behavior of entire societies from this.