no physical punishment for children is like alcohol prohibition. just because some people become raging alcoholics doesn't mean everyone cant drink. ultimately...does alcohol serve an important societal function? hitting your kids to discipline them is the same. if your beating your kids regularly...unjustly...your as obvious as an raging alcoholic is to someone who has a drink at the pub after work. say you raised a kid to 10 years of age and spanked him on the ass 5 times for shit like expressly breaking something he shouldn't or doing something very dangerous after several warnings... would you consider this abuse? i wouldn't. the world enforces physical boundaries for those who do not listen. children will encounter those later in life anyway.
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