[Livia]

I have the best set of parents in the world. I couldn't have hoped for better. I love and respect them totally and I consider myself lucky to be their child... and yet I've been slapped once or twice. It's kind of annoying to hear people paint them as "lazy" or " out of control" because they have smacked both me and my brother when we were kids.

People get all wound up by a parent chosing to discipline their own child with a smack. And meanwhile, kids languish in children's homes, suffer abuse and neglect and sometimes die at the hands of violent parents. There are worse things in the world than a smack administered with restraint from a parent who loves you.