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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Smacking children? Heck, why not go back to the days of hanging children? If a little violence is good, a lot of violence should be better, right??
Charles Dickens included story somewhere about a person hanged for stealing a loaf of bread. No one has ever confirmed such a case. Some fairly young kids were hanged though.
1814 – Five Children under the Age of 14 Hanged at the Old Bailey – Children in Victorian Prisons
Punishments were swift and harsh. In 1814, five children under the age of fourteen were hanged at the Old Bailey. One was a young man named William Potter who was hanged for ‘cutting down an orchard.’ Many other received months of hard labor for petty crimes. George Davey, age ten, was sentenced to a month’s hard labor for stealing two tame rabbits. Other found themselves in jail for stealing food and blankets. One eight year old young man identified by his sleeve number, No. 6, was asked by he was imprisoned, “for not moving on, Sir” was his answer. Sounds like Joe in Bleak House, only No. 6 didn’t even have Tom-all-Alone’s. No. 6 had no one and nothing.
