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Originally Posted by Duke
....truthfully I think a child needs a good spanking on the arse from time to time, not abuse, but correction w/ punishment... the law wont give mercy if they become troubled adults.
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I'm in this camp and believe that punishing a parent for giving a child a quick whack on the bum won't stop child abuse. If a parent is an abuser, he/she will find a way to vent their anger regardless. Which brings me to the question 'What happens to all the pent up feelings a furious parent stores up when they continually find no release is possible where a child deliberately indulges in antisocial behaviour because it knows the parent can't touch it?'
I don't, for one minute, agree with beating a child, but I'm appalled at what's happening in a world where children are growing up unchecked and without parameters to guide them as to what's acceptable behaviour and what's not. If it can be done verbally and by example that's great, but in a lot of cases it can't and there's nothing left for the parents apart from exasperation and a buildup of negative emotions which may, one day, emerge in another form.