Spanking, beating, belting, smacking, and any other sort of physical abuse towards kids of any age is lazy parenting. Anyone who does this is a coward and a lazy asshole who isn't fit to be a parent. If you can't find a better way of dealing with a child's actions than beating them then you need to reassess your own character rather than taking it out on another person.
I was the whiniest little bitch of a kid up until the age of like 12, was never spanked even once, and am now a perfectly well-functioning, smart, outgoing 17-year-old with no noticeable traces of the kid I used to be.
What do you guys think? Do you think Corporal Punishment is okay? If so, why? If not, why not?
e: [quote]Beating/spanking both [url=http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/247333.php]can cause mental illness[/url] and [url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1983895,00.html]can create aggressive behavioral issues[/url], or at least make a child more prone to both.[/quote]
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Edited by Gaara444: 3/11/2013 3:16:34 PMI'm a perfectly functioning , smart, out going, 18 year old with no noticeable traces of how much of an ass hole I was when I was a kid, and I was spanked for bad behavior. It should only be used as a last resort. My parents tried raising their voice at me, it didn't work. They tried yelling at me, it didn't work. They tried taking my toys away, it didn't work. Being spanked told me in a very real way that the behavior I was displaying was to come to an immediate stop. You can't say things like "it's bad parenting" until you're in the shoes of a parent and are actually raising a child, cause it's Hell on Earth. EDIT: I would also like to ask, are you a parent? You're 17 so I'm going to assume not. Come back in 25 years after you had raised a infant into an adult and tell me that again. If you were never spanked, how could you know you would be worse off if you were? I was, and I'm perfectly fine and healthy. Don't generalize, it doesn't help your argument.