I guess I dont see what the big deal is about spanking your kids..I was spanked as was my parents and their parents I think that the youth of today might not do as much wrong doing if more parents spanked still but so many are afraid of the child abuse standard..for instance my family and I were eating at Wendys and my son threw a fit over ketchup my husband told him if you dont stop I goin to give u something to cry about a older lady came up to him and said if you hit that kid i will call the cops My husband responded go right ahead lady because when I get out if he acts up again he will get a spanking again..child abuse is not right but its a far cry from discipline..