Inherited Bad Habit
Most compelling of all reasons to abandon this worst of all bad habits is the fact that buttock-beating can be unintentional sexual abuse for some children. I don't know if I'm allowed to list organizations or websites here, but a quick internet search with the words "spanking can be sexual abuse" would yield ample testimonies, documentation, etc.
A small handful of those who are trying to educate the public as to why child buttock-beating isn't healthy:
American Academy of Pediatrics
American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Center For Effective Discipline
Churches Network For Non-Violence
Archbishop Desmond Tutu
Global Initiative to End All Corporal Punishment of Children
United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child
Child buttock-beating illegal to date in:
Sweden, Finland, Norway, Austria, Cyprus, Italy, Denmark, Latvia, Croatia, Bulgaria, Germany, Israel, Iceland, Ukraine, Romania, Hungary, Greece, Netherlands, New Zealand, Portugal, Uruguay, Venezuela, Chile, Spain, Costa Rica, Republic of Moldova
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