http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanking

> Spanking of children within families is illegal in some countries (for example, Sweden, Switzerland, Iceland, Finland, Denmark, Norway, Austria, Holland, Germany, Italy, Malta, Cyprus, Croatia, Israel, Latvia,Estonia, and as of January 2007, Greece). New Zealand is currently debating whether or not to outlaw parental spanking, having outlawed corporal punishment within its educational institutions in 1989.

I studied it quite a lot in psychology (because the legality is being debated in NZ).

I changed my mind. I thought it was okay before, now I think that there are alternatives that are less likely to harm and thus we should use those alternatives.

This isn't to say that ALL people who are spanked are harmed.
It isn't to say that ALL people who are harmed were spanked.

It is just to say that people are more likely to be harmed by being spanked compared to being harmed by alternative methods such as age appropriate time out.

(edited by rayna to add trigger icon)