Against corporal punishment, but not very
About a dozen years ago, I was back home visiting from my young-adult life in the city, sitting around drinking coffee with my mom and my sisters, when I suddenly heard my much-younger brother crying out in pain. I jumped up. “Where are you, buddy?” I called out.
The others reacted differently: they laughed at me. “Dad’s giving him a spanking,” my mom explained gently. “Not a sound you’ve heard in a while?”
I hadn’t. I knew some of my friends spanked their kids, but they hadn’t done it around me. Others didn’t do it at all. And by then I had read up on some of the research into the negative effects of corporal punishment. Yes, lots of kids who are spanked end up okay, but that doesn’t prove much. I think Clay Jones is right here:
