-233 Spanking is not okay under any circumstances, amirite?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

It took me a second to realize that you meant as a punishment for a child. >///>;;

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Oops. I thought you meant in a naughty way, so I clicked no, then I realised you meant, as Kylias said, "as punishment for a child". O.o The innocence of my mind is long gone; my mind is forever sullied by innuendos.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

It depends what the child does. Some parents who dont spank their kids let them get away with every bad thing they do. Some parents who do spank their kids spank them for really dumb things.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Theres a big difference with letting them get away with everything and spanking them. As a child, my parents never spanked me because they were trying to teach me that hitting is not right, so i just went through the whole time-out business. It worked fine on me.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Well.. some circumstances.. ;)

by Anonymous 13 years ago

And that's how we end up with a undisciplined, greedy and selfish generation who think that they can get away with anything.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

If both partners agree to it beforehand, I don't see the harm.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

dont forget about the priceless gift of birthday spankings...

by Anonymous 13 years ago

It's child abuse. If you have to result to violence to disapline your child, then there is something wrong with you. Words should do just as fine.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Well it does kind of suck when you're a kid and it's happening to you. I literally used to have dreams where my mother was evil with red eyes and fangs and all that jazz. Now though, although I would never practice it myself, it's alright with me. It isn't just child abuse because it never actually harms them, it just stings your buttocks for a wee while and you actually do learn a lesson. No biggie :)

by Anonymous 13 years ago

So you've seen a fight at school, and a teacher running over yelling, "Stop! Stop! That's bad!" has actually worked? If I stole from my mom's purse and she just said, "NO! That's bad!", I wouldn't stop. I'd think it was a joke. And with dogs. If they poo in the house, you don't just say, "No! Bad dog!" You stick their nose near it, smack them, and say, "No." Otherwise, they don't listen. Or they don't think they did anything wrong, so they continue.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

That is animal cruelty and abuse! How do you live with yourself? My dog was abused before were got her, and it took a year for her to feel comfortable with herself and with us. She would cower in fear when someone even just leaned over her. If you think she's okay, think again.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

My dog is on my lap right now. We don't always hit our dogs. When they do something really bad, like poop in the house, we smack them once. Only once. They don't poop in the house anymore. And my dogs absolutely ADORE me. They never bite me, ever, and they always greet me. I love all of my pets so much. And it's not abuse. It's showing them what is wrong and teaching them to not do it again. All animal owners do it, and that's why dogs don't constantly crap in the house. Do you also think invisible fences are abuse, too?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

But using physical force on a child is teaching them that if you don't like what someone is doing to you should resort to physical force. If you rely on physical punishment you are teaching a child to be afraid of you, and you are potentially storing up a lot of problems: children can feel hurt, angry and resentful. This is where the question of is it better to be feared then loved is asked. Also, if you are angry you are probably going to be a bit more violent then you intend to be. So what a light tap might seem to you could be a lot worse.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I'm not saying you should smack them for everything. Only the major things. Some things can be solved with a simple time out or taking a toy away. But others are just....bleh.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Alright, I understand your point of view. I personally don't like spanking, and I was never spanked as a child and I believe I turned out okay...but don't we all believe that?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

True, true. Obviously, every kid has their moments. It's just natural. But some kids are just irritating every day I don't plan on having kids, because I don't have enough patience, but if I did have a kid and I saw him/her doing something awful, like throwing rocks at a bird or a squirrel or something, I'd probably spank them. Because throwing stones at anything is awful. But if they were just calling someone names, I'd simply put them in time out and take away television or something.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Your really stupid. Its not child abuse enless you do it for really stupid reasons. Chile abuse is wear the parent has problems of their own so they take it out on their kid but beating the crap out of them. I got spanked as a child, not a lot but enough to make me stop doing whatever i was doing wrong. If it wasnt for punishment the world would be filled with stuff that probably 10x worse than what we have going on now.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I understand your point of view, but may I point something out? Physical abuse means inflicting physical harm on a child's body. It may involve abusing a child a single time, or it may involve a pattern of incidents. Is that not what spanking falls under? Maybe calling it child abuse was a bit too much, but we really do not need to resort to name calling, please and thank you. I would also like to take the time to respectfully point out that to call some one stupid, it helps if you can spell properly. Otherwise it makes you look bad.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Children should not be treated like adults. They can't be expected to understand concepts that are beyond their experience. My father tried that whole "I'm going to treat you like an adult so you act like an adult", and all it resulted in was me getting in trouble for things that I had no idea were even problems.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Are world is fucked. I'm gonna assume you mean spanking as a punishment. Spanking is not child-abuse. Child-abuse is senseless endangerment to the child. Our parents were spanked, they turned out fine. Political correctness my ass.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

When a child is out of control they sometimes need a spanking. A lot of people today complain about how outrageous some youth are acting, this is because they don't know the meaning of no and they never have gotten any serious punishments

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I was spanked as a punishment when I was a kid. And I am a very well-behaved teenager, in my honest opinion. I know some kids now who obviously were never disciplined. How can I tell? When I see them with their parents, the parents get so disrespected and the kid gets whatever they want. Spanking is NOT child abuse. If it's with a wooden spoon 5 times a day every day, okay, that's abuse, but if the kid misbehaves, whatever. Parents need to show the kid they're in control, and they're not going to put up with BS

by Anonymous 13 years ago

If I where the poster, I wouldn't have posted this, seeing as many people on this site are christians.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

are you saying that Christians like spanking kids? My aunt used to spank her kids then she converted to Christianity and she never spanked her next child

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I don't think that it's child abuse if it's on the behind; I'm almost positive that's the law in Ga at least.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Its not child abuse to hit your child if they do somethin wrong. Just dont go overboard like my mom. She has hit me with wooden spoons, studded belts, extension cords, big pieces of plastic, etc with some yelling and some insults. Im sure i deserve it most of the times but ive gotten huge bruises and scratches and am sometimes afraid to come home. Spanking does help with displining but excessive hitting will cause your child to lose respect for you.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Its not child abuse to hit your child if they do somethin wrong. Just dont go overboard like my mom. She has hit me with wooden spoons, studded belts, extension cords, big pieces of plastic, etc with some yelling and some insults. Im sure i deserve it most of the times but ive gotten huge bruises and scratches and am sometimes afraid to come home. Spanking does help with displining but excessive hitting will cause your child to lose respect for you.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Its not child abuse to hit your child if they do somethin wrong. Just dont go overboard like my mom. She has hit me with wooden spoons, studded belts, extension cords, big pieces of plastic, etc with some yelling and some insults. Im sure i deserve it most of the times but ive gotten huge bruises and scratches and am sometimes afraid to come home. Spanking does help with displining but excessive hitting will cause your child to lose respect for you.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

no wonder majority of the kids these days are unruly, undisciplined and have a complete lack of respect and manners. ever heard of spare the rod and spoil the child? people didnt just make that shit up. please mr moron who posted this, stop being such a hippie and grow some balls.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

all my parents do to me is they take things away from and say I can't do some things and I do learn from that and they get me alot of things but I ALWAYS earn it and I know I can't alway get what I want and the reason some kids are messed up is because thier parents spank them to much like my friends mom slaps him if he forgets to put on his seabelt.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

You should never EVER hit a child.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

If they've done something wrong, they deserve some sort of punishment. When I was little I just didn't get my gameboy taken away. I got my butt whooped AND my gameboy taken away. Lesson learned: don't talk back to Mom. Simple as that. I'm perfectly fine 17 year old now and the lesson has stayed with me for 10 years.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

My biggest problem with it is that it's hypocritical. Parents tell their children not to hit, but then they go and hit their child when they misbehave.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

My parents say don't hit *first*. If someone hits me, I can deck 'em. But that's if it was a peer. Parents and elders deserve respect. You don't hit them. Period.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I am not sure about this but it seems that the people who don't mind spanking as much are the ones who were spanked and those who were never spanked disagree with it also I feel if you have never been spanked you may make it seem like it is worse than it really is so only those who have been spanked should be talking

by Anonymous 13 years ago

studies actually show that spanking can make kids more rebelious and that taking away a privilage or an item, something recreational that children enjoy doing, will make them want to behave well to earn back that privilege/item. physical abuse, even as small as spanking, serves no purpose.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

(A girl): I don't know where you heard that, but it obviously does not work for most kids here.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

(A girl): have you ever been spanked? If not you really cannot make the statement that spanking serves no purpose, studies are not always correct

by Anonymous 13 years ago

there's a fine line between spanking a child and beating a child when he does something wrong. if a kid is bad and you don't spank him ever, he knows he can get away with things.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

And if they do something wrong? Bad things happen to people in jails all the time, so we should stop jailing people and start telling them, "No, what you did was wrong. Go sit in the corner for five minutes."

by Anonymous 13 years ago

It is reasonable only under a few circumstances. I hate absolutes.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Lol I got spanked as a child, I don't see the problem.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

my momy spankys me an i hate it. i dont even desurve any spankys!!!!!!!!! my sistur can spanky me too an its not as badly stinging as wen my momy dus it.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

look...spanking really disciplines children...if you talk to a child after he does something wrong he will just do it again...he'll think okay she's just gonna talk to me and that's it, no biggie. when kids know they have a serious consequence (like spanking) they are not going to want to do bad things because of the punishment. im 15, was spanked and im perfectly fine. disciplined kids fear the deed for fear of the consequence.

by Anonymous 13 years ago