Well, I’m not going to spend the rest of my life arguing with you guys over this. Violence begets violence, this we know. As I’m sure you know, children who are abused will grow up to become abusers themselves. It is what they know.
Now is a “spanking” abuse? Well, again this is self-evident, everyone’s definition of a spanking differs, so yes, sometimes it is clearly abuse, and other times it’s not, but it is my personal opinion that it still instills the wrong lesson.
And SF is wrong in my case at least; neither my mother or my father ever raised their hand to me, once, and that includes “spankings”. So I do not feel the way I feel because my parents “went over the line from spanking to abuse”.
I am not certain about a law, but I would say at the very least we can have a law that states if you “spank” a child with anything other than your hand (and plenty of people consider using a strap “spanking”), then you will be charged.
That’s it for me on this thread.
