“A child is not a dog. Whacking isn’t a natural consequence at all...Our prisons are full of kids whose parents hit them. It doesn’t work.”
Dogs are smarter than some young kids...but young kids and dogs and horses all respond well to immediate, proportionate physical punishment.
I’ve known a great many successful people who were spanked and belted. The idea that it causes folks to end up in prison is silly.
I never stated that a spanked child will end up in prison. Plenty of FReepers were spanked, including me, and never went to prison or jail or even arrested.
Spanking simply doesn’t work. What’s really happening is other good parenting interventions that overcome the harm spanking does.