Nero Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Oh, come on! If I saw a man or woman beating a > child about the head or neck in a public place for > some minor misdemeanour, I would tear a strip off > them. Stop cowering behind hoary claptrap like > 'different cultural values' and do the right > thing! Oh really?! Probably resulting in poor child receiving an even bigger beating when he/she gets indoors. No one is 'cowering behind different values claptrap'. NO ONE is saying it's right. I spent two years as a child living in Egypt and we were hit in school by the teachers with sticks/rulers (rather like Annette's photo above!). I remember a teacher slapping me around the face because I had the audacity to throw my sandwich in the bin. I was a six year old girl. Just accept that, whether right or wrong, in a lot of cultures this is what is deemed as discipline or punishment.