Quote:Are you serious?  OK I will show you a post where you support child abuse.  It's in your very next sentence.  "Whippings work for others".  Whipping a child is abuse.  Is whipping your adult wife not domestic abuse?  Yet let's take that same action and apply it to a four year old and it somehow in your mind magically becomes acceptable.

 

As an aside, things like slavery, drunk driving, smoking cigarettes while pregnant, no voting rights for women, child labor, etc. were once thought to be socially acceptable.  Our culture changes and grows over time and through the generations.  Whippings and other severe forms of corporal punishment were widely accepted in the past and the proponents of these tactics today use bible verses and historical anecdotes as their main reasons why it should still be OK to whip a small child.  Perhaps the past generations had it wrong and there are more effective ways to discipline a child?  And there are more options than a simple timeout or the whip.

 

People love to say that they were whipped like AP's child and they turned out just fine.  In fact no you did not turn out just fine.  You developed into an adult that believes it is OK to whip a 4 year old child.  This fact alone tells me that you are not "fine".

 

Whipping is not child abuse if the child is not physically hurt or emotionally scarred.

 

You lose credibility trying to apply this same logic to an adult. People are trying to teach their kids right from wrong, respect, and honesty. Whipping your spouse makes you an abuser, not disciplinarian. 

 

Last time I check, slavery, child labor, drunk driving still exist. 

 

Im not "ok" if I believe disciplining a child is a good parenting. 

 

You really sound like one of those parents who call the police after seeing someone quick spank their child in the grocery store for misbehaving, claiming its child abuse.

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