Jack Brickman
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Is spanking abuse?
I just don’t think of anything like belt/spanking/switch as abuse. I think it’s correcting bad behavior and it isn’t necessarily the best way, but I don’t agree. Shrugs.
It depends. Are you hitting them so hard that you break the skin or leave cuts? If so, it is 100% abuse. See: the Adrian Peterson situation. He left cuts all over his kid's legs, butt, and even scrotum. That is seriously fucked up. Tell me whether you'd rather have your arm broken or be beaten so hard with a stick that your scrotum ruptures. I'd pick door number one.
If you're using it to teach them a lesson occasionally and hitting them just hard enough to send a message but not hard enough to cause actual physical damage, then no, it's probably not abuse.
And again, it should be something that is done occasionally, for particularly serious fuck-ups. It's not something you should be doing for minor transgressions. Like, if the kid steals a cookie before dinner time, you probably shouldn't beat the fuck out of them. If they steal money from your wallet, then maybe a spanking is in order.