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Originally Posted by Jeremy James
Yes of course you are welcome to join the discussion. It is unfortionate
that people confuse these two issues. There is no "fine line" between
spanking and abuse, there is a broad valley. Spanking is a loving and
effective form of disclipline. Abuse is cruel and a criminal act. Hitting
a child with an impliment such as a cat-of-nine-tails is definetely abuse.
If you are leaving bruises, welts or anything like that it is abusive.
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Lets look at this in a non personal view. Lets say Joe Shmoe is stopped by police. Joe is a bit tipsy and resists arrest. So the Cop Smacks Joe. Now Joe wants to press charges of Police Brutality/ Excessive Force. Sure a smack isn't as bad as being beaten with a stick or kicked...but it's still Excessive Force (that means not necessary) and that Police Officer would be reprimanded and Joe would be given some sort of token to appease his anger.
Spanking is Excessive Force. You can gain compliance without using physical aggression...it's been proven to work time and time again by us "radicals"
If Spanking is so loving why don't you go Smack your Wife on the bottom when she goes over the Grocery budget for the week.
Since you obviously don't spank with an Implement because Implement = Abuse, the you strike your children with the same hands that tuck them in at night, the same hands that wipe away tears, blow noses, The hands that are mean to show love...and I'm sure your hands have never left bright red imprints on little kid skin. Because leaving a mark = Abuse.