Do you agree with the pope that it is acceptable to spank your child, as long as the child's dignity is maintained?
"We spank kids in the south … I've had many welts on my legs.
In America Republicans spank more than Democrats; southerners more than north-easterners; blacks more than whites; and born-again Christians more than everyone else.American teachers are still allowed to whack children with a paddle (a wooden bat only a little shorter and thinner than a cricket bat) in 19 states, mostly in the South a practice that is banned in over 100 other countries.
Bala Ganesan Chennai, IndiaSchools' rulesSIR – Regarding your article on corporal punishment ("Spare the rod, say some", May 31st), I taught in New York state and even as early as the 1950s teachers were not allowed to touch students, much less spank them.
SuperPoke!, for example, lets people "spank", "grope" and "kiss" their Facebook friends online, whereas Causes enables them to create virtual groups to pursue charitable endeavours.This division of labour pays dividends all round.
The other two are "good fathers", in that they have steady jobs, pay maintenance, make their children laugh and do not spank them.
Parents who believe they have no alternative except to spank their misbehaving children do not need finger-wagging lectures from clinicians.
So, is it okay to spank a misbehaving child, every once in a while?
She says she was subsequently bombarded with a series of messages by the Rochdale MP who described himself as "horny" and spoke of wanting to "spank" the teenager.
By the early Nineties, however, books on Larkin's letters and his unpublished verses had transformed him into "a fuddled Scrooge and bigot, his singlet-clad form barely visible through a mephitis of alcohol, anality, and spank magazines".
He allegedly told Sophena Houlihan, who has since turned 18, that he was "horny" and wanted to "spank" her.
