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A child depends on a parent for everything, but most especially for love.

The loving, dependable parent HITS the child.

What's wrong with this picture?

I believe that if it involves spanking, face-slapping, even one swat with a belt, let alone any other form of striking a child or causing it any pain, is not discipline.

A rational adult should be able to come up with other ways of disciplining his/her child. The word "adult" implies some acquired age and maybe a little wisdom and hopefully enough smarts to overcome whatever impulse causes one to hit a child.

What's more, terrorizing a child is just as bad. "Okay, I'm leaving. If you don't want to come that's fine," and then walking out of a store. Great parenting there.

Yeah, people get frazzled and harried and stressed to the breaking point by their kids. But god dammit, they should take control of themselves and not hit their children. Find some other way to deal with bad behavior.

That's me.