[Alf]

Originally Posted by AnnieK

I don't understand that logic though Alf.....look at all the high profile serial killers of our recent past. The Moors Murderers, The Yorkshire Ripper, Shipman, Fred and Rose West etc etc......all were probably disciplined by smacking as children, didn't stop them from going on and murdering countless victims.

You have no idea if the kids who are out stabbing each other now were hit as kids - maybe they were and so think that carrying out violent acts on each other is allowed coz well their parents hit them

It usually turns out in most cases of seriel killers, that they were physically or sexually abused, or both as a child.

I'm not talking about abusing a child, I'm talking about a smacked arse for doing wrong, so that a child associates doing wrong with having consequences.

The child doesn't cry because you hurt them with a slap to the arse, the child cries because it knows it's let down, disappointed the person whom gives it love, and they learn a lesson that doing bad things brings a negative to them.