You have probably heard the expression, "Spare the rod, spoil the child." Do you agree with it? Perhaps you were spanked as a kid. Was it appropriate? Some people see spanking as an outdated method of punishment or even child abuse, while others view a swat on the bottom as a parent's prerogative. Where do we draw the line when it comes to disciplining our children?
As to the state prohibiting spanking, there is no doubt but that once the state has established such a law, along with the bureaucracy needed to enforce it, that said bureaucracy will seek to expand itself, as all bureaucracies do, by seeking through legislation (or, as most on the left are wont, through judicial decree) to outlaw other forms of discipline as well, until, eventually, the state will sit as mediator of the parent/child relationship. This will destroy parental prerogative in discipline and, by extension, the traditional family, thus accomplishing Karl Marx's dream.
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