Should Smacking Children Be Illegal?

[gWaPito]

My childhood was spent with a violent father.
Beatings for any perceived mistake was commonplace.

Despite that......from my own frame-of-reference.... beatings, slaps, smacks etc were NEVER a deterrent. Period

Children need good parenting not good hidings.

To say "it never did me any harm" is neither true nor good reason. IMHO

I don't agree

It's true in my elder siblings case. It worked in schools as well. ...teachers were on the whole respected.
Authority was respected.

None of that now.