Why would you hit such an innocent child?

Well, I think "both". I mean, it depends.

Abuse type of hitting? Oh, definitely wrong!
Spanking: Eh, I don't think so.

Like how parents say, I'm gonna get my belt!

Spanking is fine if they did something wrong, but beating them is is wrong.

There's a biiiiiiiig difference between "hitting" and "spanking". So I'm against hitting and beating in general, but spanking is fine with me as long as it's done properly. That's what my parents did, and I'm sure as heck not "traumatized" or anything. They knew what they were doing.

I think spanking is ok. Not with a belt or something else: that crosses the line.

Hitting and Spanking are NOT ok.

Aside from the fact that it's wrong, it doesn't work!

I'm cool with spanking. I was spanked and I turned out fine, and it was way more affective than time-outs. Actually, as far as I can tell, just judging based off people I know, the people that I know were spanked are actually kinder, more polite, more responsible than those who weren't. That could be a coincidence, make of it what you will.

But definitely no to hitting.

I'm against any form of hitting, including spanking. I've never understood where hitting has any place in discipline. Granted, I have a personal bias due to my family history of abuse, which was "thought" to be disciplinary.

In my opinion, hitting is not that much of effective discipline as other forms that do not involve physical contact.

I think it's wrong,I don't like the idea of hitting a child for discipline, I think there are better ways to discipline,which don't involve psyical contanct...I mean why would anyone want to hit a child...

I do not like the idea of hitting a young, sweet, adorable child. Physchologists even recommend not doing it. It boosts the child's risk of cancer, plus it make the child aggressive 55% 2 years after 5 spanks.

NOT HITTING, but just a light slap on the bum. It doesn't do any harm; well it didn't do me any harm that's for sure.

Theres a fine line between discliping your child and abusing it.

If they're naughty, your meant to explain why what they did is wrong and then if they do it again, punish them without any pudding/pocket money. but pyshically haeming a child will only make it worst, and they might grow up to be abusers as well!

That is not discipline!
Abused children tend to have either:
1. violent
2. depressed
3. traumatized or mildly insane

personalities in later life.

Parents should teach their children to grow into mature individuals, not do harm to them claiming it's good for their later life!

I don't agree with corporal punishment or any form of discipline involving excessive physical contact. I feel that the frequent results in numerous situations involving this type of disciplinary action often does not meet with what I would believe are the goals of a parent.
And in no way do I mean to degrade or take a snide offense at those who disagree with me on one's parenting choices.


And it's quite obvious that I am not for child abuse. xD

Well, I take "hitting" as different from spanking, which I got sometimes when I was young. Spanking is perfectly fine- some kids need it, the other more "mushy" forms just don't get across to them. In fact, from experience, the kids who got a little spank across the bum sometimes turned out better than the other ones.

Hitting, on the other hand, has an implication of actually putting force beind the blow, which is not right.

Spanking is nothing good either, it only really shows that 'I can hit you on your ass when you're bad, so now you can hit other people when they are bad or offend you.'

That's the way my sibling took it, and she STILL hits people. She got plenty of spankings when she was little.
I didn't get very many but I knew it was wrong. There are other ways to go about punishing a child.

I think hitting is obviously wrong, but I don't think spanking is wrong. I was spanked as a child and I don't have any emotional or physical scars from it.