it probably depends on the degree of the beating, my grandmother told me stories of how my grandfather's father gave him and his siblings really severe beatings as a child, with a real whip and naked, they feared and respected him. of course, if you are going to go to that extreme, you will either get respect or when you grow up your child will give it back to you, one of the two. my aunt's husband's father used to submerge him and his siblings in jerry cans of water to suffocate them as punishment, it left him mentally scarred i believe.
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