re: Why are people acting like Adrian Peterson was punching his son in the face?

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Parenting and children's behavior do go hand-in-hand. And those kids you've encountered may be brats. But it has nothing to do with them being spanked or not.

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Sometimes a parent can simply put on the angry face and raising their voice to put their children in their place in knowing what they did was wrong.

Now what happens when the kid doesn't listen the first, second, third, fourth, and fifth time. Say the tiny "smack" on the arse does the trick, is that so wrong? I'm not defending peterson, because he was OVERLY excessive, but some of these people who think spanking is NEVER needed haven't seen enough kids that were raised by idiots, and saying raised is a stretch.

Or what about the kids that run like idiots and their parents don't say or discipline them at all. They become a menace and carry on that attitude as they grow up (in some of the cases you see all the time with a lack of parenting).

You get the in between and the far end spectrum of idiot parents who either abuse their kids or let their kids run wild.

The in-between raise their kids well with whatever method they deem right.