Continuance of last post....

"Then Dr. Benjamin Spock said we shouldn't spank our children when they misbehave because their little personalities would be warped and we might damage their self-esteem (Dr Spock's son committed suicide). We said an expert should know what he's talking about. And we said OK. Now we're asking ourselves why our children have no conscience, why they don't know right from wrong, and why it doesn't bother them to kill strangers, their classmates, and themselves." -An excerpt from Ben Stein's article

Does this mean we should spank our children? Does this mean that because Dr. Spock didn't spank his children his son committed suicide? No. His argument is illogical. Spanking children impresses upon the children that it is okay to hit when you're punishing. If they did something wrong, you hit them. That DOES warp their personalities. To back up my statement, I actually went online to find what doctors and psychiatrists say about corporal punishment. Here's on excerpt I found:
"Hitting a small child will usually stop misbehavior temporarily. However, other ways of discipline such as verbal correction, reasoning, and time-out work as well and do not have the potential for harm that hitting does. Hitting children may actually increase misbehavior. One large study showed that the more parents spanked children for antisocial behavior, the more the antisocial behavior increased (Straus, Sugarman, & Giles-Sims, 1997). The more children are hit, the more likely they are to hit others including peers and siblings and, as adults, they are more likely to hit their spouses (Straus and Gelles, 1990; Wolfe, 1987). Hitting children teaches them that it is acceptable to hit others who are smaller and weaker. “I'm going to hit you because you hit your sister” is a hypocrisy not lost on children."

The American Psychology Association posted an article called A Resolution to Encourage Parents and Caregivers of Children to Refrain from the Use of Corporal Punishment

The website explains everything.