No Spanking, Create Hoodlums

I've said many times that if you rule out spanking, you're going to create a hoodlum. Anti-spankers and "child protectors" who tend to be inveterate "anti-spankers" just refuse to notice that if there is no meaningful punishment, your children will predictably get in trouble. And when they do, the "child protectors" predictably want to blame the parents and punish THEM, rather than realize that the tru culprit here is not the parents; it's not the children who misbehaved, though they may need to be punished. It's the "child protectors and other "anti-spankers" who, buy their actions, teach the children they will not be meaningfully punished, so why obey the rules? I don't approve of "beating" children. But an occasional spanking, when they earn it, is NOT "abuse," no matter how much the "child protectors" want it to be. (To Spank or Not To Spank)