Comment by eesmith

In those terms, "spanking" is to "beating" like 2.4% beer is to doing shots.

Children should have neither, and few countries lets 2 year olds drink alcohol, with or without a temperance movement.

I was spanked more than once. Was it my fault for not learning as quickly as you did? Was it my parent's fault for not spanking me the right way? Or, hey, let's skip the entire conversation of how to spank the right way and simply ban corporal punishment, since other child-raising methods demonstrably work.