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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There are those that say "it didn't do me any harm". It did me some harm. It's not a good idea. In my experience it is simply abuse meted out by a poor parent that has lost control. In my recollections I hadn't even done anything that bad. It's abuse, pure and simple. How can we expect children to grow into good adults if we're showing them that violence "solves" problems?
