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But don't you see, there is still the possibilty, now that it is discouraged, it is alot less lickley for parents to over abuse the system.
And as Nate said, the parents judgement could be horrible, my parents reacted whenever I was against whatever they would say, I would get beaten up becuase I would stick up for someone they wouldn't like, or even give them constructive critisim, but they wouldn't hear it. Hitting a child robbs them of their willingness to stand up to oppressions.
Just like how children take out their anger on defencless animals, some parents take out their anger on their children.

Needing to resort to hitting them shows how weak or unwilling of a parent you are.
Oh, and kids have always been bad, they've just been afraid to show it.
Sure you didn't see the kids threowing tantrums, but when they grew up, they would be scared and changed becuase of it. I'm not talking about what it does to kids, I talking about what it does to people who have grown up.