Spanking isn’t effective, but we need to get the state out of parenting. Criminalizing parenting while rewarding single motherhood is a recipe for disaster.
It’s not?
I almost never got any physical discipline, but I knew my parents weren’t afraid to use it. Just that thought I think helped kept me from ever getting it much.
I can only remember once that involved my dad - as well as a gauntlet of my aunt an uncle who spanked all us cousins for an incident (rather minir, too).
The only other spanking I can remember was from my uncle, along with his sons my cousins, in their house. That was a little naughty.
BTW, I was never a “rebellious” teen, either. I guess it worked.