I sincerely hope that no one is thinking of taking seriously the article on spanking by Harriet MacMillan and colleagues.1 The members of my husband's family were spanked, and all of them turned out to be model citizens. A spanking is not going to hurt a child's personality. If anything, it is going to help the child in the long run: spare the rod, spoil the child. I do not want children who have not been spanked to be our leaders of tomorrow.
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