How do you feel about the idea of making spanking your children illegal?

Question

I want to know if theres ANY support for this outrageous idea. I spanked my child from about 2-5, and only when i felt it really necessary, and now she is 6 and i never have to punish her at all because she knows to listen. I personally think the idea of making spanking illegal is not only wrong, but will only increase problems with children listening and possibly crime. We all sit around thinking "whats happened to the children today" and i feel it is exactly THAT. When we were young, not only did our parents spank us but so did our teachers, principals, ect. Now children feel they can get away with anything because they dont understand the idea of being disciplined like we did. So what is the new idea....to make spanking, slapping, and pinching completely illegal. I personally feel it is completely stupid and will not follow this law, if i get in trouble i get in trouble, but my kids dont end up all screwed up in the head. What do you think?

Answer 1

your right. and the system wonders why our kids are running around breaking the law. if they left parents alone our kids would turn out perfect. if spanking kids was so wrong why do we have the govt we have act normal, i'm sure they was spanked by their parents while growing up. human resources needs to stay out of peoples business.

Answer 2

I think that if you hit a kid, you teach a kid to hit. That being said, I also feel that the government has no business in your personal business, if your kid shows up at the ER to treat his or her broken bones or something like that then and only then should the government step in. Spanking is sometimes the only way to communicate displeasure with behavior that a young child understands. A swat on the butt, is in no way abusive, but should only be used when absolutely necessary.