I think spanking a child is a no-no anywhere.

This is one of the most basic things that everyone needs to understand. If you spank your child, you are a bad parent.

yes it's a no-no but I did it anyway. I never even came close to abusing my kids, a swat on the diapered butt hurts their feelings more than their rear.

I think it's terrible to spank a child in public AND in private. From what I understand, in Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Croatia, Cyprus, Latvia, Italy, Israel, Germany and Austria, it is illegal for a parent, teacher, or anyone else to spank a child. In some states and provinces, it is only illegal for a teacher to spank. In all areas of North America, physical punishment by a parent, as long as it is not severe, is still seen by many as necessary discipline, and condoned, or sadly, even encouraged. For the past several years, many psychiatrists, sociological researchers, and parents have recommended that we seriously consider banning the physical punishment of children. The most important reason, according to Dr. Peter Newell, coordinator of the organization End Punishment of Children (EPOCH), is that "all people have the right to protection of their physical integrity, and children are people too."

I think and strongly believe that it is a definite NO! regardless of where the parent and child are. Here is my answer to a similar question: A leather belt was used by my mother and his own belt was used by my Dad....sometimes his had a metal end on it. The only other 'corporal' punishment was a slap to the face. I do not think that in any way it made me a better adult. I know that it did not make my older brother a better adult because he used corporal punishment on his sons and worse on 2 of his 3 wives---"the third wife laid down the law" so he never hurt her physically when he was drinking. (In every way he acted out at his family as an alcoholic just LIKE our father did. My younger sister was 'spanked', beaten, more than once with a belt and there is no doubt that it DID NOT make her a better adult. In fact, it led her to hate herself, have very poor self image, believed that she was no good in every way and she could never find peace with/from God. Her 2 worst "spankings" beatings with a belt were: at age 7 by our young 24 yr "saintly" mother; and, at age 17 by our father. Nobody remembers why she was 'spanked for doing something wrong" at age 7. I remember every blow and the yelling at her and her fighting to get away from mother's hold on her with one hand and swinging the belt with the other.At age 8, I was powerless as were my brothers, age 6 and 9. At age 17 in 1957, she still lived at home aand bought a car after getting a great job after her June 1957 graduation. Most Saturday nights she and a girl friend would go to a movie, bowling, skating, and similar activities that were available to teenagers in the 1950's over 30 years before the sexual revolution and ease in buying beer, and the use of heroin primarily in the NE U.S. One night she and her girl friend did not just 'drag' (as in the movie, "American Graffitti" that was filmed at the favorite drive-in, round, at one of the street that was crowded by teenagers every Fri and Sat nights) the street and yell at the boys, but they left town and drove 60-plus miles away AND she arrived home at 8:00 a.m. When she opened the front door father demanded that she go to her room...our mother and I were in the kitchen and, as at age 9, I could only listen to her screams because my interference at 18 would just have meant that he would become even more angry and beat me too. Same for our mother. (That evening she called our grandmother and was on the plane to travel 5 states away the very next morning.) What he had done: Made her remove her clothing all except bra and panties, used his stiff narrow belt with a metal end to beat on her so hard so long. The incident was not mentioned by our parents. You see, he had decided that she was out there having sex with one or more boys---being liki him probably several times a week when at his favorite bar owned by the woman he had slept with for several years before alcohol killed him at 47. How "in God's green earth" could those 'spankings' have made her a better adult. She never spanked her own kids who are 3 fine adults now. She died at 57. God was merciful for she was happy one minute and dead the next, before her son could walk around the table, when an anyourism broke in the front of her head. Sadly, the laws making such treatment Child Abuse did not come until the 80's. I realize that some adults can bury such memories so deed that they do not realize the power those buried feelings have on their adult lives.

No, I believe in spanking.

No, I don't. If my kids need disciplined I will discipline them where ever we are at. And I don't care who sees me do it. Those same people who will get all bent out of shape for me giving my sons a quick swat on the butt are the same people who will make desparaging comments about what a bad parent I am if I let my kids run wild. They just want something to bitch about.

yes. wait till you get home. then do it. no need for humiliation >>--CC->

hmmm. I believe that unless you leave a mark on a child that a parent can do whatever it is they see fit as discipline for that child. On the flip side - I have a 5 yr old and 2 yr old and have never and would not ever hit them. I just try to be open minded. :)

I think spanking when warranted is a yes yes everywhere.

If God had spanked adam and eve we'd still be immortal

Some grownups should be spanked.

i dont think that spanking a child is wrong,it's all bout how you do it. People cant control themselves and over do it. nowadays you cant spank a child in public cause people think its abuse. They seem to forget that back in the day kids would get spanked by everyone! you'd be walkin down the street and you would get spanked by the whole neighborhood by the time you got home. haha

I dont spank my daugher unless its absoultly needed. And I dont ever do it in public.

never' if they act up paddle that ass, theres to many kids lacking it an thats why everything going to hell'

If it was a YES YES in a society then that would be the perverts' society!!!

I believe children need disipline but I also believe that spanking a child does not solve the problem. Every child needs to learn self control and they will not learn slef control by having their parent model a negative behavior. I feel that you should address the child's behavior issue verbally and get to the bottom of why they are acting the way they are. Who knows they may be tired, bored, or hungry. I believe you are only teaching a child violence if you hit them.A parent who hits a child is modeling that it is alright to hit.

Kids learn what you teach 'em. If they notice that they can get away with anything, as long as other people are about, then guess what they will learn? I'm on the side of the parent that pulls their kid into line. It saves the parent from a shitload of stress, and it saves the rest of us too.