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Abuse Does Spanking Lead Child Abuse' Were you spanked as a child' Do you think spanking effected you' Every parent has been in a situation where a good spanking seems like the only way to put an end to little Junior’s temper tantrum. Parents use a number to reasons, some you may have heard, to use spanking as a form of discipline. They may say “Spare the rod and spoil the child.” Or “I was spanked and I turned out okey.” Even “Kids need spanking to show them who’s boss.” The issue I wish to present is whether or not spanking leads to a rise in child abuse and later violence. Do children who are spanked or physically punished see spanking as a violent act' Do they learn to see violence as an acceptable way to solve a problem' When parents spank their children are they guiding them or controlling them' Nancy Samalin, author of Love and Anger, believes that spanking is nothing more than a big person hitting a smaller person and it can do damage to your child’s conscious. “A child who obeys because of the fear of being spanked,” she explains “is children, spanking, child, spanked, parents, abuse, violence, punishment, percent, physically, nine, age, years, way, trumbull, studies, straus, statistics, six, shown, rates, punished, higher, found, believes, become, act, wrong, week, time, suggests, spank, solve, sense, samalin, rod, rise, right, reduce, physical, person, old, new, mothers, likely, later, kids, development, consequences, conducted