Smacking Children: Good or Bad?

[theprof00]

deskpro2k3 said:

theprof00 said:

Marks said:

MrBubbles said:
jails are also full of people who were physically "disciplined" as children.

Do you seriously think there's a correlation between being disciplined and violence as an adult?

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.

 

There is a big difference between beating and hitting.

While you're right, the mechanic is the same.

It's an idea that is delivered, an idea that you have control over shaping.

 

I think the only point that stands for spanking is that it is such an odd practice that it likely does not create a violent atmosphere, but more of a ritual that parents do to kids as it requires total control of another person, which is unlikely to occur in day to day life for a child.