You got to be a dumbass not to allow parents to spank there kids. I don't mean they can't just kick there kids ass, or hit them for every little thing that they do, but like regular spanking, maybe with a belt, but nothin that would actually leave marks. That would be wrong.
If some of you have taken classes or saw shows about how it is wrong and it doesn't help, then you don't know sh*t. There are plenty of examples out there of people who never beeing hit by there parents that turned out to be serial killers, just as many of those who were spanked when young. If you don't hit your kids and let them do what ever they want then they won't respect there parents, won't listen to them, they will do what ever they want to, and they are mostlikely to turn out to be some bumbass.

Your mother smacking you because you refuse to stop hitting your little brother is not abuse. Abuse is when your someone hits you for no reason and for their own personal reasons, not for what you done wrong. Teachers are not allowed to hit at all, and trust me, I wish they could. I teach a bunch of kindergardeners to third graders and some of them are so spoiled and they will not listen no matter what(thank god it's spring break). I want to smack some sense into them, but...teachers are not allowed to hit the children...no matter what. But yeah, it's discipline, not abuse.

It's absolutely necessary to spank. That is not physical abuse. Beating them into the ground with a frying pan is physical abuse. This is always a frustrating subject for me, because when people get to believing that spanking their children damages them mentally, you get a bunch of bratty, unruly, spoiled rotten kids making scenes in grocery stores, etc., and all their parents can do is yell at them, work around them, or beg them (that's always a sad one to see) to stop their tantrums. The children have control of the parents, instead of the other way around, and those children grow up to be some of the most obnoxious and irrational people you'll ever meet - very much damaged as opposed to most children who are disciplined properly. I say "most" because things can happen during a childhood that the parents have no control over at all (school, friends, peer pressure, divorces or death in or outside of the family), and some things can change a child's outlook no matter how well their parents have reared them.

For the most part, however. . . I believe what's been stated to be true.

Bleecchhh, I don't think it should be outlawed necessarily. I certainly know for sure that I'll probably spoil any children I have D=

Spanking should definately be allowed. That's how I was punished growing up and I turned out pretty good if I say so myslef! There are differences though. Beating is much different and obviously shouldn't be allowed. I had this terrible habit of biting when I was a kid. After everything didn't work, my mom bit me back. I never bit anyone again! Same way with hair pulling, etc.

The only problem...many people belive it takes a village to raise a child and not the parents, so now parents are paranoid about punishing their children. A parent friend of mine's youngest child (12 months old) was really like a little bully to his 3 and 4 year old siblings, pulling hair, biting, kicking, even hitting them with things on purpose. Her pediatritian told her to put him in "baby time-out"...what a JOKE! He loved that most of all b/c he loved sitting in chairs, standing in corners...She ended up doing everything to him that he did to his siblings to make him understand that's why it hurts and isn't nice. He's such a little angel now!

A swat on the bottom, a slap on the hand, stern words, being made responsible for a wrong-doing...these have always yeilded the best results.