andyt andyt:
No duh. You're just teaching them might is right with spanking. If you can't parent without spanking, you shouldn't be a parent
Oh please. I was a little asshole when I was a kid. Grounding me and giving me timeouts and all that other bleeding heart crap did shit to slow me down. But when I started getting spanked( not beat but legitimately spanked) I started calming down. Until I hit about 15-16

And since spanking has basically been considered child abuse for the last umpteen years now, how do you explain the extreme increase in violence. If there is a connection between the two, I fail to see it considering that except for the truly abusive parents, fewer people actually spank their kids. IF fewer kids are being spanked, why are more of them becoming violent at younger and younger ages?
I mean c'mon. Unless yer prepared to bolt their bedroom door and seal their window shut, grounding is pointless. Take away their video games? Well screw you, they'll just go to Johnny's after school and play games at his house all evening. What are ya gonna do, ground 'em? Give em a "time out"? Oh, how a bout a stern talking to, that'll teach 'em.
Oh by the way, I NEVER considered myself to have been abused by my parents.