People keep saying "Our parents did it.  We turned out fine!"  Well there's all kinds of things people's parents do that we don't do anymore.  I'm pretty sure there's a lot of them you wouldn't want us to do.  But we learned them from our parents!  

 

You can post all the anecdotes of "I turned out fine!" you want.  There are just as many cases where it didn't work out fine.  


Personally I'm against spanking altogether.  I think it reinforces that violence is an acceptable answer to anything. I'm not going to tell anyone else how to raise their children.  But when it comes to leaving physical marks on a child, that IMO is significantly wrong.  I don't care if your parents did it.  I don't care how well you turned out.  Because that's not always the case.  People keep saying "We need to go back to whipping kids!"  Maybe we need to go back to whipping adults.  Maybe we should go back to stoning people like we used to.  That's what our ancestors did.  

How would you feel if someone else whipped your kids?  If they were acting up, you'd be okay with them leaving marks on them?  I know I wouldn't.  I'd leave the same marks on them they left on my child, only worse -- because they're an adult.  

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