I was punched in the face as a kid by a stepfather

[deafskeptic]

26. it wasn't all verbal abuse.

I remember going to school one day with a bruise on my face.

I remember my 4th grade teacher asking me about the bruise on my face.

I remember being embarrassed because now everyone would know how bad I had been. I didn't want to talk about it but I had to because my teacher was an adult. I told her that I got slapped for talking back to my Dad during a homework argument. In those days, talking back to adults was one of the worst things kids could do. And now everyone knew I had been a bad girl and that's why I deserved a slap in the face.

I've been spanked with a belt. All the adults I knew were in favor of that. It stills dismays me that even now that some favor corporal question as the solution and are disdainful of "librual" ways of raising kids. Many adults I know seem to think it's acceptable.