Again, it's a fine line.
A little slap now and again as an incentive not to do something is fine in my book however, some parents use it as an easy means to not have to actualy set any ground rules, suplimenting the smack rather than a solid set of boundries. If the kid sees that the adult hitting is deemed as an okay acitvity then the child becomes violent itself.
But then you have these new laws meant to prevent this kind of stuff. The laws meant to stop people abusing their children. Look at it this way if someone was beating the snot out of their kids on a regular basis a half way measure law is not going to stop them. All it will do is land parents whom, in a brief moment of lapse, give the child a quick slap in all sorts of trouble.
Think about it this way, what is more likely to scar a child. Daddy catching his arm by accident when he is running round like an idiot or the strain put on Daddies marrage when Daddy has to go and serve 15 hours comunity support and be put on the child abuse register...
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