This entire article is a mishmash of sob-story anecdotes. Why not just come out and say, "I don't believe in corporal punishment because I've had sucky experiences with it." Geezus.
"Okay so I don't have kids of my own"
Okay another ditzy dame...
I don't got no anklebiters either but I know what a hellraiser I was when I was young enough to hold down, and I for damn sure deserved every a$$-whack I got. Any kid o' mine is going to get the almighty devil beaten outta him when occasion dictates. That's the only way most kids learn.
Every anti-spanker I've met seems to have one of the following rationales:
1. History of abuse in immediate family.
2. Some liberal hoity-toity white-linen idea that inflicting pain to get your point across is uncouth, violent and primitive.
3. "Spanking??! What kind of kinky b@st@rd ARE you! [SMACK]" ;)
This article is not about coporal punishment instituted by a parent being wrong, as the author points out her own mother spanked her when it was needed. It is about allowing a stranger to hit your child because you are too lazy or stupid to parent them yourself. I spank my children but I can promise you one thing, the first adult who lays hands on either of my daughters (aside from my mother who has full spanking rights if necessary when they visit her) without my knowledge or consent (of which there never will be any given), will be crawling around on all fours looking for their teeth. And no, that is not false internet bravado. That is the plain and simple truth.