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Originally Posted by RandyMarsh
I don't have kids but I have a feeling NOBODY who is against the physical discipline on this forum has kids either. And I think they'll get a shock when they do have them just how hard it is to keep them under control.
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29 countries have outlawed corporal punishment, so it's not necessarily the norm. Here, it's illegal and rare. I don't see it or hear about it much except for stories in the news about crimes against children. Although I don't have kids of my own, I have 4 nephews who are raised without corporal punishment and they're great kids. I wasn't smacked, neither were my siblings. We haven't learned how to corporally punish and so I don't think it's much a part of our knee-jerk reaction to use it when a kid acts up.
So basically, several nations have abolished this practice and the amount of families that get by without it is pretty darn huge. Obviously, it is perfectly possible to raise kids without it and, as Janszoon pointed out, I don't think society here in Norway or Sweden suffers in any way from a lack of corporal punishment. I think it's something we benefit from.