Should Smacking Children Be Illegal?

[Terpe]

and it never did you good if your beating your kids up

Seems to be my turn in the barrel at the mo

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

Means it DID do me harm.
Means there's no reason AT ALL to inflict violence.

And basically I DO believe that such behaviour often shows itself later with the family environment......but it's not a done deal to be so by any means.

I'll duck out of this thread.