Corporal punishment as discipline is not only ineffective, it's damaging.

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135. I said I did not agree with corporeal punishment, and that maybe parenting and anger classes would

benefit Peterson and his children more than putting him in jail. Supervised visits etc. I saw the pics and do not condone what
he did. I think we need to teach people parenting skills in high school maybe even junior high. Many do not get the right
modeling at home and at some point the cycle needs to be broken. Raising children, especially boys without their father
is also a terrible idea. This boy will think he is to blame for his father's disappearance. And how ill incarceration affect this family financially. Will these children now be raised in a worse neighborhood? Will they now be surrounded by drugs and
violence on another scale without their father to support them???

Do we have an obligation to make sure that people know spanking does not work? There is no license or test you have to take
before you have a child. There should be some life coaching a long the way.

You are purposely taking comments out of context. No one I have seen has supported hitting a child with a switch, stick or
any object. But if that makes you feel superior, keep on distorting people's positions.