Should smacking children be made illegal?

i guess we need a controlled experiment with two randomized groups of ne'er do wells ;

group A gets a gentle talking to and a mars bar for kicking the **** out of pensioners

group B gets a sound thrashing and are forced to wear orange jumpsuits

this would make a wonderful research project, no ?

My main goal is to examine the relevance of social psychology in understanding everyday social issues and how such issues, like group and intergroup behaviour, body image, and life skills development are amplified through everyday practices, such as during our leisure time (e.g., sport, physical activity).

And yet you come across as an advocate of a smacking ban, and take a dishonest approach in doing so by drawing a false equivalence to assault and battery and making innuendos against those who don't buy your argument.

If you think that those who were smacked disproportionately turn out to be violent thugs then you had better bring forth your research finding. Good luck with that; whole generations, including mine, have been smacked and did not turn out to be violence-crazed.

Reasonable chastisement is exactly that. It causes no injury, no permanent marking and is not emotionally given. It should continue to be available to parents without censure from the likes of you.

The main thing to keep in mind is human behavioural biology and psychology.

Hitting a kid is the easy way out for lazy parents who do not have the will to, the interest to, or simply the social skills to address their child’s issue from the root. Instead, hitting them in hopes that they associate the pain with the habit creates a guilty pleasure sort of feeling attached to that. Not only will the kids do it again once their parents are out of sight, they will get a kick out of it as they directly oppose authority.

As of the ‘I turned out okay’ argument, not everyone deserves the right to vote on an issue they are subjectively biased towards in an ill-informed way or do not have the knowledge to think about. It’s Socrates election argument on democracy. I do not need statistical evidence to show that these people regularly suffer from mental disorders today and do not have their lives together, but if you put these people on the charts, I’m sure you’d find unemployment, suicide and financial instability significantly higher.

We have had a bad generation grow up and the world around us is another piece of evidence to see. Gen Y or the daycare generation has still proven to be better.

a spanking good exposition of the common-sense approach to child rearing.

Thank you. The real contradiction is that, given the social pressure brought to bear against smacking by the likes of the OP and the consequent likely reduction in smacking, we now have a generation of people whose mental health seems very shaky and which is too nervous to be recruited into the police service (as recently reported).

The OP should be studying the effects of social media and mind-rotting, vanity-inspiring TV shows instead of attacking sensible parenting.

they can make so many special friends from their bedrooms

I don't know who this beer is @the bear. He once tagged me and I thought it was you, but then I was disappointed to see it was him.

any parental restriction on the use of the internet is tantamount to child abuse. little Julian and Chloe must be allowed their privacy. they can make so many special friends from their bedrooms

so many young hopefuls have tried to breach your defenses Mum

a kid will only touch a hot stove once

This reminds me of my elder son, who is worried about the strange people I meet on TSR

If you think this, you ought to see some of my pm's

The main thing to keep in mind is human behavioural biology and psychology.

Hitting a kid is the easy way out for lazy parents who do not have the will to, the interest to, or simply the social skills to address their child’s issue from the root. Instead, hitting them in hopes that they associate the pain with the habit creates a guilty pleasure sort of feeling attached to that. Not only will the kids do it again once their parents are out of sight, they will get a kick out of it as they directly oppose authority.

As of the ‘I turned out okay’ argument, not everyone deserves the right to vote on an issue they are subjectively biased towards in an ill-informed way or do not have the knowledge to think about. It’s Socrates election argument on democracy. I do not need statistical evidence to show that these people regularly suffer from mental disorders today and do not have their lives together, but if you put these people on the charts, I’m sure you’d find unemployment, suicide and financial instability significantly higher.

We have had a bad generation grow up and the world around us is another piece of evidence to see. Gen Y or the daycare generation has still proven to be better.

As of the ‘I turned out okay’ argument, not everyone deserves the right to vote on an issue they are subjectively biased towards in an ill-informed way or do not have the knowledge to think about.