Spanking is kind of a personal opinon type thing I think. I don't have any children so i can't really say for sure if I would spank a child however it is i guess a form of phsyical abuse. I have read in one of my text books that punishments are only affective if they are administered right after the undesireable behavior was preformed. and then explaining to the child what alternate course of action they should have taken because if they do something wrong and are never told what to do instead then they will most likely do something other than the action which the receieved the punishment for the next time the situation presents itself however the alteranate action may also be deemed incorrect by society.