Would you spank your child?

[amadeus]

No, but I'd let them spank me.

 

[Perfection]

No, but I'd let them spank me.

Just like Albert Fish did?

Another defense witness was Mary Nicholas, Fish's 17-year-old stepdaughter. She described how Fish taught her and her brothers and sisters a game. "He went into his room and he had a little pair of trunks, brown trunks, that he put on. He put those on and came out into the front room, and he got down on his hands and knees, and he had a paint stick that he stirred paint with."

"He would give the stick to one of us, and then he would get down on his hands and knees and we would sit on his back, one at a time, with our back facing him, and then we would put up so many fingers, and he was to tell how many fingers we had up, and if he guessed right, which he never did, why, we weren't supposed to hit him. Sometimes, he would even say more fingers than we really had. And if he never guessed right, why, we would hit him as many fingers as we would have up."

 

[Bill3000]

Proverbs 22:15

Exodus 21:7-11

 

[Theige]

Spanking is awful.

You people will make terrible parents.

 

[LucyDuke]

Would I break the law? No. Spanking is illegal, and rightly so.

So you wouldn't do it if it were legal?

Spanking is awful.

You people will make terrible parents.

My kid won't be yelling in the movie theater or crying for candy in the supermarket. You can thank me then.

 

[Archbob]

I won't hesitate to dish out pwnage if I see it necessary. Kids have to be taught.

 

[MobBoss]

Spanking is awful.

You people will make terrible parents.

Spoiling a kid by not spanking them would make you a worse parent.

Spanking isnt what makes a parent terrible.

 

[thekaje]

No, I agree. I think that violence is the best way to impose your will upon others.

Historically, there's little other choice. Do you think Genghis Khan could have gotten by on just a harsh word? Or Napoleon would have been respected as an authority figure if he just rode around giving lectures? No, Napleon was a spanker. He spanked hard, and sometimes he used a belt. Or a gun. It's a metaphor.

 

[musekick]

My parents disciplined me without ever having to spank me; I'm relatively certain I could do the same.

 

[thekaje]

My parents disciplined me without ever having to spank me; I'm relatively certain I could do the same.

Well, I think we all know that you're no Napoleon.

 

[PiMan]

Spanking is a leading cause of BDSM fetishes.

 

[Bill3000]

Spoiling a kid by not spanking them would make you a worse parent.

There are other, more effective ways which don't have the possibility to lead to child abuse to punish a child. I'd generally call punishments which make a child stupider when they grow up to not be worth their time.

 

[MobBoss]

There are other effective ways to punish a child.

I said as much earlier. But someone who is short sighted enough to call people who spank their kids as bad parents isnt going to employ them. They lack wisdom.

And your link references something called HCP - Harsh Corporal Punsihment. That sounds more like abuse that simple spanking to me. Spanking doesnt need to be harsh. You also seem to ignore the last sentence:

However, it is also conceivable that differences in prefrontal cortical development may increase risk of exposure to HCP.

Which would seem to indicate that its possible that the kids with less gray matter were spanked more because they were simply more unruly, possible due to their less brain mass....not that their brain mass was reduced because of their HCP.

Of all people Bill you should realize: correlation =/= causation. Perhaps you should read your links a bit more in the future or at least try not to misrepresent the ones you do offer.

 

[Kraznaya]

False dichotomy, worthless thread.

 

[bhsup]

I'd like to think I wouldn't spank, but I tend to have a bit of a temper and little patience especially for brats.

That's the wrong reason to spank. My dad always explained exactly why I was being spanked, told me he loved me and wanted me to know that he hated doing this, then gave me the whipping. It was never a spur of the moment act. Sometimes I think it was harder on him than it was on me.

 

[Tee Kay]

I'm sure you can discipline a kid without having to resort to physical assault.

 

[Shadylookin]

That's the wrong reason to spank. My dad always explained exactly why I was being spanked, told me he loved me and wanted me to know that he hated doing this, then gave me the whipping. It was never a spur of the moment act. Sometimes I think it was harder on him than it was on me.

Maybe, but that just creeps me out. I mean spanking a kid so nonchalantly seems weird to me. If what they did wasn't enough to make me angry I don't know that I could spank them for it. Besides my memory may be a little fuzzy, but I'm pretty sure I never really gave a darn that my mother loved me while she was spanking me.

 

[bhsup]

I'm sure you can discipline a kid without having to resort to physical assault.

I'm sure you can as well. Good think a regular ol' spanking is light years away from physical assault.

 

[Tee Kay]

I'm sure you can as well. Good think a regular ol' spanking is light years away from physical assault.

Well, I don't know about your standard of what spanking is. I guess the sort I used to get were the "heavy" kind. Still, I'm repulsed by the idea of it in general. A good parent should not have to cause physical pain to get their point across.

 

[Camikaze]

Spanking seems normal enough, but if you take a step back and look at it objectively, it's abhorrent. It only seems acceptable because we've all grown up with it. I don't really think that it's good idea to teach a kid that physical violence will solve problems, or correct wrongs, or is a valid tool to be used as a threat.