(September 20, 2015 at 3:38 pm)Rhythm Wrote: -Some- spankers are people who have witnessed their children, whom they dearly love, doing terrible, deleterious things, often more than once, and having failed to correct that behavior by a host of others means have decided to employ the distasteful but, in their experience, effective means of spanking their child, not beating them with objects or fashioning tools with which to strip their skin away...for behaviors that have and would otherwise continue.
Children copy, an unavoidable truth. If they are doing 'terrible' things, they learnt them from someone and punishing by violence is not teaching them any sort of valuable lesson to carry into adulthood.
There's always a better, intelligent and more productive way to inform someone (child or adult) that their behaviour is wrong rather than smack them round the arse/legs/face and say "now you've learnt your lesson". It's lazy and if you have to resort to that sort of shit you shouldn't have children.