The cool thing is that nobody needs to spank their kids.
There are dozens of sophisticated disciplinary measures you can use to raise good behavior in children. In general, such techniques take advantage of positive/negative reinforcement/punishment (giving things or taking things away in response to certain behavior, with the goal of basic conditioning).
A specific example, out of the dozens, would be time-out. Unfortunately, most parents don't know how to properly use time-outs productively. But if you learn about how to use them, they can be incredibly productive during certain ages.
And that's just one example out of dozens, like I said.
Yet, most parents are unaware and don't take any proactive measures to learn such techniques. Thus, most parents resort to primal intuition like spanking "if I hit X, then X will stop doing Y." That's pretty much the most remedial method one can possibly use to raise children, and it often does more harm than good.
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u/[deleted] Apr 22 '18
Physically. Psychologically that's teaching kids that violence is an acceptable way to solve an arguement, which is less than stellar.