Spanking, beating, belting, smacking, and any other sort of physical abuse towards kids of any age is lazy parenting. Anyone who does this is a coward and a lazy asshole who isn't fit to be a parent. If you can't find a better way of dealing with a child's actions than beating them then you need to reassess your own character rather than taking it out on another person. I was the whiniest little bitch of a kid up until the age of like 12, was never spanked even once, and am now a perfectly well-functioning, smart, outgoing 17-year-old with no noticeable traces of the kid I used to be. What do you guys think? Do you think Corporal Punishment is okay? If so, why? If not, why not? e: [quote]Beating/spanking both [url=http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/247333.php]can cause mental illness[/url] and [url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1983895,00.html]can create aggressive behavioral issues[/url], or at least make a child more prone to both.[/quote]