The fact of the matter is, any consequences you could possibly give your children are slowly all becoming "child abuse" in the eyes of this country.

I can understand hitting children being seen as abuse, it's a shaky issue. It is just the shear fact that parent's won't be able to punish their children soon, that angers me.

Mark my words, 10 years from now we won't even be able to look at a child wrong without it being defined as "Abuse".

The worst kids are often the ones whose parents do nothing, or even worse, do too much.

While I was spanked (not beat) as a child, it was a rare occurrence, and it was when I was really bad. It really didn't hurt physically at all, it was more emotional than anything. Yet, it kept me in line. I hated it when I was a kid, but now I look at it as more positive than anything. I would say I had it pretty easy for a kid.

My parents didn't enjoy doing it, though there are sick parents out there that get excitement from it.

Other kids did more damage to me than my parents ever could.