Spanking of children

[Esaias]

What was considered correction in Bible days, and even 100 years ago, would be considered "abuse" or "cruel and unusual punishment" today.

People didn't "spank" their kids with a whipper stick, they beat them with a "rod" (staff-like wooden device, think wooden curtain rod). Remember the visitor in Singapore who got sentenced to "caning" several years ago? That was a public beating with a rod, and is a lot closer to what in Bible times would be considered "correction with the rod".

" Boxing the ears" was, up to about 100 years, a common corrective used on children - punching or smacking them upside the head.

People today couldn't handle life as it was 100 years ago.

As a kid I was once unjustly beaten black and blue with a tomato stick (1x2). Literally turned my bum and back of the thigh green and purple, lasted for two weeks. I say unjustly because I honestly did not do what I was accused of. But guess what? I MADE SURE from then on the situation never recurred, the false accusation was due in large measure to my own negligence and prior bad behavior.

And I didn't grow up torturing animals or becoming a sociopath.

My dad had it far worse than I did, too.

BTW, the spankings stopped when I was like 11 and I literally disarmed my mom (took the belt from her lol).