Hmm, see, I'm torn on this one. My mother never spared the rod, so to speak, and I think I turned out ok. When my terror of a little sister was growing up, she tested our patience with an eagerness that made me believe she was spawned from the pit of Hades. I never hit her, though, because she wasn't my child. I almost did, once, when she threw a bowl of stir fry at me (I'd had the audacity to catch her in a lie), but I didn't. My mom didn't hit her often, either, but she was spanked. Now, do people even draw a line between spanking and beating? Should one be drawn? Is my perspective too skewed? These and other questions always rear up when I think about corporeal punishment.

Hmm...