Sorry, but there's no such thing as "loving" physical discipline. I didn't suffer abuse, at least not often. Most of it was swats on the butt, paddlings, switches to the legs, but once in a while it was full on beltings across a bare ass. I can recall a few slaps in the face, too. That's not what I would ever…

And what do you base your assumption on? I had the shit beat out of me several times a week and it took a lot of therapy to not be the angry, self-absorbed, selfish twat that my upbringing produced. My daughter, who receives thoughtful discipline that DOES NOT include physical punishment, has always been a respectful,…

Unless you have adults wailing on children and the children aren't allowed to fight back, it's a false equivalency.

I'm a grad student, graduated early with 2 bachelors degrees, have a letter from the POTUS thanking me for all my hours of volunteer work, live with a family near school and help a mentally ill middle schooler function normally, take care of my cat, pay my bills, make handmade cards for my friends and relatives on…

Taking a little roughness while playing a sport is completely different from the feelings of betrayal and anger that a child feels when a parent - the person who is supposed to love, protect, and guide them - physically hurts them.

Nope. I shall be doing the same with my children. My mother's idiotic advice "Just ignore them! They'll go away!" never worked on bullies. In fact, it just encouraged them.

That's it in a nutshell. Domestic violence is against the law. Hitting a friend or stranger is against the law. So, why is it ok to hit a child - the smallest and most vulnerable among us? I don't care if you call it spanking, swatting, smacking...it's physical violence and it's simply not OK.

I loathe when people purposefully miss the point.

If you think hitting is an effective learning tool, you need to work on your teaching skills.

What effective punishment system is there that doesn't have some negative effects?

You're being intentionally obtuse.

Hitting has been proven to be a less effective teaching method for children than explaining a mistake or providing longterm consequences such as time-outs or grounding which promote contemplation. Why are you fantasizing about hitting your future kids if it has been proven an unproductive teaching method?

So, okay, you're just okay with hitting at home. In which case, this article is for and about you.

Agreed. To try and equate a contact sport that TEACHES discipline and, for the most part, non-violence, to child abuse its a little absurd.

First of all if you say the words "I am a martial artist" on the internet your comment already starts at -10.

Thank you for the life advice, 21-year-old who has been in a relationship for five minutes.

Kudos to you. I honestly can't comprehend how parents of multiple children manage. It's expensive and time-limiting enough with one (though I guess siblings occupy each others' time).

That statistic does make me sad, but I think it depends a lot on how many kids you have, if both people really wanted kids in the first place, how long the couple had been together before the first child was born, and other factors.

So I am getting married this June and loved the points it made. It is just super distracting to show a heterosexual couple only in this info graph. It would have been more helpful to show images of different types of couples. It's a perfect example of heterosexism.