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AbuseAccording to a May 2001 article in Parents powder magazine 67% of the American population condones spanking as a regular form of discipline. Also, 67% say they would oppose a law prohibiting spanking at home and says that only 17% would support it. According to advice columnist and family psychologist John Rosemond, Many parents are becoming frustrated with the very weak forms of discipline du jour advocated by psychologically correct experts. He also says More than 90% of children raised in the 1950s and early 60s were spanked and we dont go round bang people when we dont get our way. While I was visiting a jock recently, she told me about her most recent visit to the doctor with her two-year-old daughter. She told me that she was nerve-racking to get her daughter ready to leave after the appointment was over and her daughter would not quit playing with the toys which were in the doctors office. subsequently several minutes of struggling with her daughter to get her coa t on, her daughter turned to her, said no, mom and then her daughter proceeded to slap her across the face. My friend put her daughter over her knee and gave her a quick swat and told her that she was not to treat her mother like that. After seeing this, a foster came over to my friend and told her that if they ever see her hit her daughter again they would call the Department of Children and Family Services. This situation is not all that unfamiliar to me these days. I project of parents in similar situations almost every day and sometimes I actually see it with my own eyes. For instance, I was in Wal-Mart a few weeks past and witnessed a woman tell a father that she was going to report him for child abuse because he grabbed his sons arm and yelled at him for taking off and running through the store. Apparently the father had turned to look at something on the shelf and when he turned back around his son was gone and the father was paged over the store intercom to come and retri eve his son from across the store. In my opinion, that child was lucky that his father hadnt given him a spanking right in the middle of the store. When I was a child my father would have given me a real whacker of a spanking for pulling a stunt like that in a store.