Of course you, and any other regular on this ng know my feelings on
this. As long as we allow children to be legally hittable in the name
of discipline (an illegal act for anyone 18 and over), the line is
arbitrary. Children will continue to be hit and hurt in the name of
discipline, with the line being drawn differently by different states,
and will spankers arbitrarily attempting to determine the frequency and
severity with which they can hit their children when disciplining,
before the arbitrary line is crossed.

LaVonne

wrote:

...on a newsgroup on spanking posters in favor and apologists would
insist that they knew the line between spanking and abuse.

I asked a simple question.

Were is the line.

So far, no workable answer.

A lot of evasion.

A lot of harrassment.

But no real answer.

Where, folks that believe in spanking is the line that will ensure the
child is safe, but your spanking will be effective discipline, eh?

And how is it with this claim that there are so many different
definitions of how hard, with what, spanking can be done and we would
presume the spanker has no intent to injure?

Nearly every child abuser claims they were just disciplining... when
they are caught.

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