Yes. I received corporal punishment when I was a kid every so often and it worked. I've also used it sparingly with my kids, and it works. The reason people are so soft today is because they were never sufficiently punished as children.

Yes. I received corporal punishment when I was a kid every so often and it worked. I've also used it sparingly with my kids, and it works. The reason people are so soft today is because they were never sufficiently punished as children.

Why sparingly?  Doesn't that just encourage the kids to test the boundaries more?  

Godlessness, feminism and "divorce" ended the family. 

Also, families have way way too much luxuries and not enough chores.

Agreed. There is little need for corporal punishment if everyone is working hard and contributing to the family, instead of indulging in so many extracurriculars. 

Traditionally, the corporal punishment of wives did much good. No?

I do not know that tradition. Sounds like something a weak defeated man would do.

That’s the required modern response, of course. But is it the true response?

No.

My father never hit us. My grandfather never hit my father. They were both pillars of the community, entrepreneurs, industrialist. They raised their children to be leaders. If my father was upset you knew it. There was no need for belts, slaps, and paddles and such. I always thought that a father hitting his children is an American Protestant thing and my family is neither.

What has eroded the family is the loss of the Faith.

Any corporal punishment I ever received was rare, mild, and entirely deserved.  I did not cause a lot of problems as a child.  I generally didn't grow up with CP as something acceptable.  My grandfather had the same philosophy.

I have chosen not to administer CP to my son.  For one thing, in a divorce situation, even if I wanted to use it --- and I do not --- it could always be used against me.  The courts favor women, because society favors women, and it is only my having gotten probably the best divorce attorney in our state (he was not cheap), and her having gotten a joke of a divorce attorney (left the country under very strange circuмstances), that I came out as well as I did, and have been able to be the guiding force in my son's life.  His mother has not seen him in over a year, ostensibly due to the pandemic, and she lives 15 minutes away with her mortally sinful, invalid, and illicit consort.  She does not yet know about my father, she will know when I choose to tell her, probably in a few days.  My father requested no obituary.

As for my son, while I do not administer CP, I do not hesitate to read him the Riot Act when this is merited.  He knows when he's messed up.