But what is it that he actually did?
He spanked his four year-old son. For what, no one is saying.
Yeah. He spanked him with a "stick". (some sites have used the term "tree branch") But where I come from - both in time and geographically - we called it a "switch". (And we had to go out and cut it ourselves. Along with the instructions, "It had better be a stout one!" (To be honest, it only happened to me once. I was a quick learner.
)) And that switch left some welts. Some of them pretty good (bad) ones. But if I'd be willing to bet that boy isn't going to be needing another whipping for what it was he received this one for.Now this was the same way AP was punished when he was a child. And looked how terribly it effected his life.
Yes. This is a new and different time. Parents today are suppose to be more "enlightened" and corporal punishment on children is no longer acceptable. And just look at how well that philosophy is working out on today's youth; Gang shootings, drive-by shootings, school shootings...I could go on and on.
It might take a whole village to raise a child but some one from that village has to step up and teach that child right from wrong. And if the rest of the village doesn't like the way the lesson is administered then they can just live with the consequences when that child turns out to be just another useless thug out on the street.
