Spanking has always been considered a necessary evil, which is deemed extremely essential and helpful in the growth and development of a child. In effect, in earlier times, almost all the children were spanked by their parents, over an unacceptable action. However, the practice has declined in the recent years. This is because parents find it brutal to hit a child and feel more sympathetic towards him or her. This is even seen as a rise in children becoming precocious at an early age and losing the innocence of their childhood. Thus, the debate, to spank or not to spank still remains heated.
One can hear stories in media, about parents becoming upset with the school teachers who hit their children. This implies that when parents themselves do not resort to violence to punish their child, how they can allow someone else to do the same. On the other hand, one can also hear stories of youngsters easily falling in the trap of drug addictions, violent anti social activities, ruining the society as well as the future of the country.
It is believed that earlier, when kids were spanked, the crime rate was quite low in comparison to what it is right now. This makes it quite difficult to decide whether low spanking actually has some connection with the increasing crime rate. However, there are many organizations that consider corporal punishment as unethical. They believe that disciplining the child by spanking him is not a solution to the problem. According to them, spanking can even have severe physiological implications. This implies that there still exist two mindsets on the issue, which have their own subjective ideologies behind spanking.
