Yes, and was the lion free range?

Gotta be a shitty restaurant. Frozen lion? Serve fresh or don't bother.

Going to Duke with a full ride IS an awful existence.

No, you sound more like a hick meathead. And if you want to dispel that notion, you may want to start using periods at the end of your sentences.

so you were hit to teach you not to hit? that's some shitty logic right there.

I'm sorry, but that's nonsense. Again, it if worked like that you'd only have to do it once. They "swear", you hit them, they "get it", they never swear again. Except that's not how it goes. Because you hit them again and again for a wider and wider range of offenses.

I'm sorry that you were abused and that has left you believing it's okay to be abused. Shoving leaves in a 4 year olds mouth and beating him until he bleeds with a tree branch is not good parenting. It's a shame you've been so warped to believe different.

You're either being disingenuous or ridiculous. A study of 179 teenagers does not a study make. By that same token, smacking your wife around will probably get your dinner on the table on time as well and beating your kids will get you a "Yes, Sir" and temporary good grades through fear. But they're still long-term…

Liftin' barges, totin' bales, getting your ass whipped by your own relatives and going to Duke turns one into an unoriginal, humorless internet troll.

And for the record, if hitting kids worked you'd only have to do it once. If you're hitting your kids every couple of weeks you're an abusive fuck-up of a parent and in need of serious help. I hope you don't do that to your kids. Kids die on the inside first.

As an adult your issue is that you talk about yourself waaaaay too much and, god damn, do you brag. No one cares about your boulder-moving childhood. You sound like a weirdly abused and abusive personality. All you talking ain't helping.

"cuts aren't that bad"

Dude, you're like Superman or some shit. Boulders THREE TIMES YOUR SIZE? Fuck, yeah!

There have plenty of studies done about spanking with an object vs. with a hand. Children beaten with objects are much more likely to be diagnosed with psychological disorders( http://archpedi.jamanetwork.com/Mobile/article…)and be perpetrators of violent crime as adults(http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.23…)

And Janay Rice just needed a little "discipline" but it went too far right? Plenty of people get hit in the face playing sports and they turned out all right.

The victims of abuse are usually the first ones to defend it, just as you have. I'm sorry you were forced to do hard labor as a child, and also beaten as a child. Even tho you are not.

A child being disciplined is often sent to fetch his own switch.

Wanna make your kids hate you forever? Keep cutting off those switches. You're also going to perpetuate the abuse. Great parenting.

I'm thinking he must've either 1) torn this kid up with that switch, or 2) the kid is really young. I have some familiarity with Texas attitudes toward corporal punishment, and in general the idea is: spare the rod; spoil the child. To get to an indictment in Montgomery County, this "discipline" must've been pretty…

Now we get to find out who the NFL cares less about, women or kids.