Corporal Punishment

[NDN]

It might be justifiable in extreme cases (as in the kids were assaulting someone or broke laws), although the potential for abuse is alarming. I'd prefer it was used in the criminal justice system more so than schools.

[NDN]

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?

Juvenile delinquency has actually gone down considerably since the early '90s. Furthermore attributing it to 'kids' implies that it's not gender specific. That's demonstrably false, it's mostly young men committing crime - especially violent ones. The truth is that America has serious issues with the 'roles' and expectations placed on young men and women in our culture. Unless it addresses that, we're going to see men acting in increasingly dysfunctional and immature ways.

Now with that said I don't think corporal punishment really has anything to do with that, although I think it would provide a reasonable deterrent and/or form of social control in some cases.

[NDN]

After reading all of that I have no frickin idea how you support corporal punishment still. That is pretty disgusting that parents would want to do that to their kids and then use the Bible as justification.

There's a big difference between being spanked, and actual physical or psychological abuse. Trust me, I've had friends that had absolutely horrible things done to them. They'd take offense to hearing the two compared.

I had no spanking at all and no corporal punishment and I turned out perfectly fine while I was very rebellious as an elementary school kid.

Well good for you, but some kids honestly need it. I'm not going to deny I was asking for it a few times.