I know I'm whining, but I wish corporal punishment had been criminalized a few decades earlier.

[morningfog]

100. Your arguments do not make sense.

They are absolutely asinine. Your problem is that you are looking at children as property and with ownership. You see this as having an effect on your ability to parent. That is your error.

A child's right to not be beaten had nothin to do with abortion or vaccines, no matter how pathetically you try to make it.

The "argument" against hitting children is actually just science based knowledge. I encourage you to rectify your ignorance. Hitting , even spanking, causes lower IQs and higher depression. It also leads to a continuation of the cycle of violence.

In the US, 75% of parents are still too lazy, too reactive and too stupid to acknowledge their failure in parenting. We all know, though, that a majority of Americans doing something is not indicative of rightness. 38 nations have banned corporal punishment and every nation of the world except the US and Samolia, have signed on to the UNs charter defining the rights if children.

Like other outdated, regressive and harmful practices the US still engages in, we are just stupid and stubborn, refusing to join modernity. Yet. We are getting there and will get there. One day hitting children will no longer be tolerated.

One last thing: you sure as shit are right about one thing. It is about the children. It is solely about the rights of children. When you stop thinking of children as objects and propety and start thinking of them as a person, you will understand.