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A pat on the behind for doing something wrong is a lot different than being locked in a room and being whipped with a belt for no reason other than an alcohol induced rage while your mother is screaming and beating on the door trying to get him away from me.
They are just different levels of the same thing. Just as an abuser who physically pushes his wife or holds her down against her will is just a different level of abuser than the abuser who punches his wife in the face.
They are just different levels of the same thing. Just as an abuser who physically pushes his wife or holds her down against her will is just a different level of abuser than the abuser who punches his wife in the face.
It's never appropriate, and only teaches a child physical violence is acceptable.
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Originally Posted by GypsySoul22
Add another for 'at birth.'
There are far better ways to 'deal with' children...spanking...sorry, not an option.
Like I said before, teachers have kids in their classes and are not allowed to spank or touch them but must guide and teach them...why should parents get to???
I know these posts are from 2009, but I agree with all of the quoted users. Spanking is never appropriate and teaches a child that physical force is an acceptable way to get what he/she wants. And besides, if an adult were to spank another adult in a dispute, it would be considered assault. So why is it okay to do it to a kid?
I have a degree in Early Child Development, two kids of my own, and have worked with children from all facets of life and development for years. Spanking is never OK. There is not one single study, not one, that proves otherwise. In fact, every single study shows that spanking has a negative effect on kids.
I give up at some of the whipping, spanking threads on here, are they all half witted, this is the 2000s.. children cant defend themselves, and shouldnt be hit by people who are supposed to love them.. its an outdated idea..
That's how self-rationalization of otherwise unacceptable things works.
There's stealing and there's stealing. The self-rationalizer calls it stealing when he does it. But if it happens to him its stealing.
Hitting someone much smaller than yourself - its hitting.
its abuse. another form of physical and mental abuse is washing a childs mouth out with soap.. for lying or swearing, my god, do these stupid parents know what their doing.. the chemicals alone in soap is dangerous never mind the mental abuse a chld is receiving.. this is torture and achieves nothing.. do these people not understand that abuse makes a child cruel to animals and to bully other children..
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So if a kid is a 19 year old student still living at home it's ok to spank them? I don't think so!
I agree.
We have in-laws who are Pentecostals. The father spanked the daughters with a belt (I don't call that spanking) all through high school. On their bare butts.
He bragged about it in front of the kids saying "every once in a while my kids need a rear end adjustment"
He said it with a creepy, leering tone. There was one daughter who he seemed to single out for "special attention". The other was whipped less. The son, hardly at all.
Spanking a child in public is humiliating. Who would want to humiliate their child?
Sexual sadists. That's my guess.
I am strange in that I take a moderate approach to spanking. The dictionary definition of it.
If you wouldn't do it when they're older, why would you do it when they're younger?
What's the reason for this arbitrary age limit?
Simple answer, don't start in the first place.
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Agreed
