well, apart from advocating corporal punishment, nothing else on this thread. But considering how many people's noses you have put out and been banned from the main section, to suggest you are a functional adult without any issues is stretching things no? To go back to corporal punishment, and if we can take the personal reminisces out of this for a moment, why do so many people want permission to hit kids? Why do so many societies raise perfectly functional families and yet corporal punishment is not only illegal but abhorred? As a rule my parents didn't hit me, but when they did they knew they had done something wrong and would be apologetic for ages. Not that it mattered (the apologies) - I had switched off by the time I was a teenager If you are brought up with corporal punishment you will perpetuate it - and so the cycle continues. I'm sure there will now be a slew of righteous "its not hitting kids that has made them feral" posts but I think you'll find it's the opposite