My father used psychological warfare against me mostly.
I’d have preferred a good spanking, and just get it over with, rather than endure disapproval.
Mom spanked... And it pained her more than it did me.
The only way spanking would lower IQ is if you literally had your head up your @$$, and they used a wooden paddle.
It’s a positive correlation. The poor have lower IQs and are more likely to spank. Therefore, spanking lowers IQs and causes poverty.
Spanking should be used very rarely but is useful for instructing children.
Consider the state of schools these days. We had a Junior High Principal who had a paddle. Students could be sent there and ‘corrected.’
Now kids in grade school say ‘F*** you’ to their teachers. No threat of paddle. Thanks to Obama’s crazy DOJ they can’t be suspended. Suspending kids is racist. Now they aren’t even sent to the principal’s office. That’s racist, too.
So they run amok and cause chaos in classrooms with impunity.
There are kids who listen to their parents, for whom other corrective methods (time out, for instance) will work. But there are rare occasions for even good kids where they do something completely out of bounds after being warned or kids who just don’t listen.
Without physical control over kids they’ll harm themselves and others.
If you look at the current generation of college kids running amok, one wonders what type of upbringing they received. Did the (mostly white) snowflakes melting down on campus, obsessed with their own hurt feelings, and ready to inflict their constant finding of ‘microaggressions’ get spanked? I doubt it.
Spanking should not be banned.
We should also consider instituting mandatory military service. A round of basic training will burn out the namby pamby pinko weak-kneed nonsense passing for smarts among the college crowd.
The weakening of the herd is the goal of the Left. Spoiled kids, mentally unstable drugged up cuckold beta wimps, and a weakened European stock make a nation ripe for invasion.