As a child who was spanked, hit, slapped, etc., I can say any form of inflicting pain of the physical nature is horribly wrong. Much like Rexy, it taught me nothing except to fear and hate my mother. She wouldn't explain things or even consider the severity (or lack thereof) of what I had done. She'd just slap me or something. Even if it was just something the usual parent would just disagree with, she'd almost spontaneously hurt me before I could even see her hand coming at me. Then again, my mother's forms of "punishment" crossed over to child abuse I believe.
Nevertheless, it's still causing physical pain to an individual. No one has that right. And it's repulsive that a parent thinks he or she has that right. It's battery if you slap some adult, but "fair punishment" if you hurt your child? What the hell.
Random: I remember a documentary on Native Americans I watched last year. One of the things the white settlers did that some of the natives were most appalled by was how the settlers hit their children.
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