Spare the Rod?

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by DanaC

I think that's an appalling thing to do to child. T-shirt included.

That doesn't surprise me.

Originally Posted by Gravdigr

Give me that leather, metal grommeted belt and let me wail on you for just a minute, for one goddamned minute, and THEN stand up and tell me you weren't injured.

I've had worse and so have you. Whether it works or not, is debatable, and has been at length. I'm not qualified, nor have the desire, to dictate to parents how to raise their kids.
I probably would, however, take the position they aren't allowed to eat their young... as least their own young.