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Originally Posted by HantsHammer
A lot of the problems is when the smacking comes from anger and not from an actual intrest to differ the child from a wrong doing.
Most humans are cowards and just find it easy and fullfilling to take out their aggresions on someone smaller than they are and THIS is what needs to be stopped.
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On the other side of the coin, perhaps anger is exactly how you want your child to know you feel. Sometimes talking with them doesn't convey the emotion as much as turning around and slapping them does (in the case that you do not slap your child on a regular basis). If your father slapped you one time in 12 years of your life, then you know with pretty good certainty that whatever you did made him REALLY angry. This seems to be the stance that most societies (except for the MOST liberal of societies) take on physical punishment (that is, a simple slight physical gesture expressing an emotional coup-de-gras).