Family
Sep. 30, 2014
American jurisprudence is wrong about spanking
While "domestic discipline" is no longer prevalent in the United States, corporal punishment of children remains popular. In fact, the law permits spanking. But should it? By Lauren Kelly Johnson
When a wife misbehaves, her husband bends her over his knee, makes her say she is sorry and smacks her with an open hand across her bottom. The husband keeps spanking while the wife cries and pleads for him to stop. The husband is angry and tells the wife he has to spank her to teach her to behave. The wife never knows how many times she will be spanked because the husband decides how much punishment she deserves. The wife knows the husban...
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