Those parents who approve of corporal punishment contend that they only spank as a last resort, do it only for serious misbehavior and only when they are calm.
The students reported their initial beliefs about whether physical punishment is an effective way to discipline a child on the scale from 1: completely disbelieve to 9: completely believe.
For some parents, spanking a child who misbehaves is a common punishment. In fact, they may think that a physical type of punishment is good for children and will teach them to behave in the future.
A BBC investigation has found that some school teachers in Kenya are beating their students on a daily basis despite corporal punishment having been banned over twenty years ago.
In recent years, many American experts have been advising parents against the use of physical punishment. Many other countries have already banned corporeal punishment. Sweden was the first nation to do so in 1966.