#corporal-punishment

#corporal-punishment

3. And this reader shared some modern context: "Tennessee still has corporal punishment, at least as of a decade ago. A friend's teenage daughter had to get paddled for something extremely minor (her cellphone was in her backpack and not her locker). There is something seriously gross and perverted about a grown man making a young girl bend over his desk to paddle her butt." - blueshark77

Graham believes in spanking, while I am staunchly against it. My husband grew up in a household with three brothers, and according to him, "good old-fashioned ass whippings" were the only thing that prevented the household from descending into chaos. My younger brother and I grew up with an alcoholic father who would beat us with anything he could get his hands on if we so much as looked at him cross-eyed, and I will NOT have any child of mine subjected to corporal punishment.

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