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Originally Posted by tore
That's why it says "in general". It means that perhaps not every possible individual scenario would show that corporal punishment is net negative, but the studies show that corporal punishment on the whole has a net negative effect.
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I think you're confusing discipline with abuse.
Getting drunk and beating a kid every single day because they annoy you is completely different from smacking a child once in a blue moon because they've been doing something extremely awful repeatedly and aren't responding to any other kind of discipline.
Giving a child a 'smack' usually means something you do very rarely as a last resort and it tends to be a tiny fraction of your strength on an area where they're least sensitive (E.G you don't throw a right hook full force at their throat).
I'd be surprised to see how many of the people in this thread have kids or have had to look after kids at any point of their life. It seems like the people against the smacking are blowing it out of proportion, looking at some of the posts in here you would think they've mistaken 'discipline' for the word 'disembowelment'.