Spanking Child With Wooden Spoon Not Child Abuse, Says State Court

[Buddyblazon]

455. I'm pretty liberal and my wife is uber liberal...

She has always believed that spanking a child was wrong...

until that is....

She went and started working at a group home for troubled teenagers. She worked there for nearly a decade.

And while she would never spank one of those kids at that job, her opinion did change.

"A complete and utter lack of discipline. Many of those kids need a good spanking.".

I was raised by a conservative and a liberal. Both believed in spanking. The spankings were used sparingly and only when we really messed up. Both my sister and I turned out just fine and not for one second would I call the spankings we received "child abuse".

That term "child abuse" gets thrown around too much. I think it's absurd to move a child out of a stable environment where the occasional spanking occurs to have them placed in foster care where things WAY nastier (ask my wife....she'll give you some horror stories about foster care that will make your toes curl) than spanking happen on a regular basis.