Marks said:
Obviously if the kid is beaten then yeah he'll grow up to be violent, but I interpreted the OP as meaning just a good spanking, not child abuse. |
Think about it.
You get frustrated by a child's behavior, you get mad, you hit, no matter how lightly, the child.
The act of force resulting from anger, no matter how little, is what the child learns. He learns that anger disipates through the arm (or leg, or forehead) INTO another person or object.
Beatings has nothing to do with it. Beating a child could turn them into a serial killer, or mass murderer, or a wife-beater at least. Hitting and spanking is just a smaller form of that...the result won't be serial killer, but still violent nonetheless.
