Nobody has smacked their kids for decades, that's why we've got a generation of young people who are all entitled, histrionic wetwipes with more personal pronouns than job skills.
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Being violent with your children may be appealing to you, but it can do lasting damage. You can discipline your children without physically harming them. With your attitude, I hope you did not have children.
@windinhishair Here's a serious reference on the effects of corporal punishment: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3447048/
Even with these controls, physical punishment between the ages of six and nine years predicted higher levels of antisocial behaviour two years later. Subsequent prospective studies yielded similar results, whether they controlled for parental age, child age, race and family structure; poverty, child age, ...
Physical punishment is associated with a range of mental health problems in children, youth and adults, including depression, unhappiness, anxiety, feelings of hopelessness, use of drugs and alcohol, and general psychological maladjustment.
... no study has found physical punishment to have a long-term positive effect, and most studies have found negative effects.
