On March 16 2012 22:46 -_-Quails wrote:
What do you consider to have distinguished your treatment from physical abuse?
What do you consider to have distinguished your treatment from physical abuse?
Physical abuse involves actual physical injury. spanking involves temporary pain. you wouldn't call pinching someone physical abuse would you? if someone is being spanked to the point where they're being bruised and can't sit down, that's abuse. I was spanked when I was younger, but never abusively. But just like any form of punishment as a child I didn't think it was fair at the time, but now that I'm much older I see no problem with what my parents did. I know they loved me then and still love me now. If you burn your hand on a hot stove do you think you'll ever touch a hot stove again? Pain has it's uses. What do you ever hear from reformed ex-cons who go around warning youth to stay out trouble? "Prison is a bad place, you get beaten/stabbed/murdered", not "spending all that time in a cell is rough". Pain is the greatest motivator we as humans have. It's no surprise it's been used by parents all across the world in every region and culture as a form of discipline. The key thing I think in arguing for the merits in spanking is clearly defining the difference between abusive and non-abusive spanking. Abusively spanking a child is definitely not ok.