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Pro-spanking is a term used to refer to the point of view that spanking is an acceptable form of punishment of children. The opposite is called anti-spanking: the view that children should never be spanked.

The pro-spanking philosophy, generally speaking, believes that children should be spanked when they are naughty, disobedient, lazy or rude because:

• spanking is an effective way to bring an immediate end to misbehavior
• spanking connects the misbehavior with pain in the mind of the child
• spanking is physical, as opposed to forms of psychological punishment
• spanking is quick, and forgiveness can follow immediately
• spanking is known for millennia to be an effective parenting method
• spanking is safe when done correctly, i.e. given only on the buttocks where the risk of injury is very small

[edit] History

The pro-spanking point of view prevailed since known history (see the history of spanking), but was gradually replaced by the anti-spanking view in the course of the 20th century. This caused a revolution in parenting and education methods that led to the complete banning of corporal punishment in many European countries.

The pro-spanking position is expressed in scripture since antiquity (Greek philosophers, Roman authors, the Bible) and in most parenting books that were published before the 1960s, but only very few selected newer publications. Today there is a handful of pro-spanking websites that are run by people as a criticism of the anti-spanking movement. Europeans who express pro-spanking points of view today are in risk of harassment in their home countries, which is why pro-spankers, unlike their anti-spanking counterparts, often seek protection in anonymity and pseudonymity.

[edit] Pro-spanking parenting books

Pro-spanking parenting books are books on parenting that take a pro-spanking point of view, i.e. they recommend parents to use disciplinary spanking in certain ways and under certain conditions. Usually these books take the point of view that a spanking, given at the right time and in the right way, can be beneficial in raising up a child.

Today, these books have become rare, as the majority of modern parenting books takes an anti-spanking point of view and warns parents to avoid all forms of corporal punishment and use other punishment methods, such as time-outs, instead.

Another position is to present spanking and a nonspanking alternative, with the choice left to the reader. The author may also offer his or her individual preference.

Examples of pro-spanking parenting books:

• Back to Common Sense by Beatrice Reinhart, 1937
• Correction that Corrects by Mariam Fredrick, 1925
• Child Development: Parenting & Teaching by V. Thomas Mawhinney, Ph.D and Corlice J. Petersen, Ph.D, 1986, 1990, ISBN 0-538-32200-4
• Christian Family Guide to Parenting a Toddler by Sybil A. Clark, 2004, ISBN 1592570496
• Christian Parenting and Child Care by Dr. William Sears, 1985, ISBN 0840754221
• Dare to Discipline by James C. Dobson, ISBN 978-0553255287
• Growing Kids God's Way by Gary Ezzo, 1986
• Handbook of Parent Training: Parents as Co-Therapists for Children's Behavior Problems by James M. Briesmeister, PhD and Charles E. Schaefer, PhD, 1989, 1998, ISBN 0471628743, ISBN 0471163430
• Lots Of Love And A Spanking by Jamie Pritchett, ISBN 978-0965608725
• Parent-Child Interaction Therapy by Toni L. Hembree-Kigin, Ph.D and Cheryl Bodiford McNeil, Ph.D, 1995, ISBN 0306450240
• Spanking: A Loving Discipline by Roy Lessin, ISBN 978-0764225635
• Spanking: Why? When? How? by Roy Lessin, ISBN 978-0871234940
• Shepherding a Child's Heart by Dr. Tedd Tripp, 1995, ISBN 978-0966378603
• The Mother's Almanac by Marguerite Kelly and Elia Parsons, 1975, ISBN 0385468776
• The New Dare to Discipline by James C. Dobson, ISBN 978-0842305068
• The New Strong-Willed Child by James C. Dobson, ISBN 978-1414313634
• The Plain Truth about Child Rearing by Garner Ted Armstrong, 1963
• The Strong-Willed Child by James C. Dobson, ISBN 978-0842359245
• To Train Up A Child by Michael Pearl, ISBN 978-1892112002
• What The Bible Says About Child Training by J. Richard Fugate, ISBN 978-1889700137
• Withhold Not Correction by Bruce Ray, ISBN 978-0875524009

[edit] Links

• Discipline Your Kids... Please!, an example of a pro-spanking article by Dr. Dale A. Robbins