Corporal Punishment

[Joe Biden 2020]

I'm somewhere between option 2 and option 3.  I strongly believe in corporal punishment and I strongly believe, if used properly, is NOT abuse or assault.  Kids nowadays are growing up without much discipline in the home and that is a major cause of their misbehaving in school and in society.  Why do you think we have so many criminal offenders in their teens and early 20s?  The book of Proverbs says to "spare not the rod".  A father or a mother cannot avoid spanking at all costs.  The spanking DOES get the message across when used in conjuction with grounding or yelling or other forms of discipline.  It turned me around.  I even agree with it in the school system, but only administered by the principal behind closed doors with the presence of another administrator or faculty member so the chances of abuse to the child and/or false allegations of abuse by the child are lessened (they can never be totally avoided).  I'm very old school when it comes to corporal punishment.

I also am strongly against the government telling parents how to raise and discipline their children.  If abuse is happening, it will be exposed.

Now, having said that, I do strongly agree that there is a point to where the corporal punishment is used TOO much to where it does become abuse, or to where it is rendered ineffective.  There is a very fine line when it comes to not only spanking, but all types of discipline.

And, lets not go into the cases where the child, usually a hormonal teenager, actually ENJOYS being spanked.  That can and does happen.

In a lot of people I know that are my age, it wasn't so much the spanking that hurt the most, it was the look of disappointment on their parent's faces.  That is far more piercing and excruciating than the hard swats of daddy's belt.  I should know, I got 8 swats with a 2x4 in the 6th grade because of 8 zeroes (7 in English, 1 in Social Studies), just two days after my 13th birthday.