Should Spanking Be Banned?

[AStoneWall]

Simple question

mostly aimed at parents, should spanking children be illegal? Or at the very least heavily looked down upon

personally I think it should be because of my own personal experiences, it can get way to out of hand easily.

I remember I was pretty young and I had gotten in trouble so I was spanked by my mother and when she went to spank me over her knee she went too low and ended up hitting me in the testes. While I don’t think she meant to do that, the pain was severe and the fact that such accidents can occur makes me think it’s not for the best

in addition I’ve heard of parents intentionally taking things waaaay to far with spanking so I just think it’s to easy to have something go wrong with the punishment

your thoughts?

Yes, it should be Banned!

Nope, it’s an important tool for parents!

[RebelinSteel]

Yes it should be banned like it’s banned in Scotland. They changed the law to give children the same protection from assault as adults. That is the crazy thing, an adult has more protection than a child.

[AStoneWall]

Yeah we’re behind on certain dignities over here I guess
.. sigh

[LaurenM1997]

But in the bedroom it shouldn’t be banned but with children yes

[NotTacocaT6969]

I was spanked, little sister was not.


Can you guess which one of us cornered our mother and beat the shit out of her for saying “no” to skipping school?


I’ll save you the trouble, it was the undisciplined demon of a little sister.


She has a criminal record and much more all because my mother thought like you.


Lucky for her, I punched her for attacking our mother and made her afraid to do such a horrible thing again.

[AStoneWall]

It’s a very different thing if your child is trying to attack you, you can defend yourself within reason
But non-violent disobedience being met with violence doesn’t set a good standard

What your sister did was wrong
But what my mom did was also wrong

[MemeSupreme]

no but i don't think it should be done after like a certain age

[tremendousfern]

Do you think you're going to reason with a 2 year old? Some kids need to touch the hot stove though before they understand "no". So what's safer? Touching the hot stove or a swat on the behind? Letting your kid become a violent thug because you wanted to be their best friend instead of their parent and use "nonviolence" or giving them a spanking that bruises their ego more than their skin?

It's always easy to tell the people who weren't spanked.

[IslaTheWitch]

Should be banned. It shows parents' weaknesses, which shouldn't be throw on a kid.

[Anonymous]

Yes, teaching kids that violence is OK is never a good idea.

[AStoneWall]

Especially around that area of the body I feel like

[DrearyMark]

Damn dude that’s a hell of a fuck up on your moms part :/

[AStoneWall]

Trust me I know, I’ve never said anything about it but it made me super uncomfortable even as a younger kid

[LaurenM1997]

I was spanked as a kid and it didn’t really teach me anything so I received the consequences

[Anna-Laighy]

Your mom did that to you? That's... okay well like from an outside perspective that's comical but that sounds traumatic!

[AStoneWall]

It was…. but I guess at least someone got some humor out of it 😅

[velvetheart]

Any form of corporal punishment is bad.