Some years ago, smacking was accepted by society to educate children, but nowadays, there's an enormous debate on whether this method, obviously with well defined limits, is useful and ethical. In my opinion, smacking shouldn't be banned for several reasons.
Firstly, the parents are the people who have the task to decide which punishment their children deserve, so the law should just interfere in extreme cases like serious violence. On the other hand, until these days, a lot of people have been smacked by their parents and they are well, so it means that sometimes, using this method is not so bad as some people think. And finally, sometimes conventional punishments don't work because children don't really see what they're doing, and this method could work.
In conclusion, if parents don't abuse smacking and they do not always use this punishment, there're no reasons for it to be banned, and it's supposed that parents know how to punish their children, so this issue, in conventional situations, should be in their hands.
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