"Exaggeration and outright false statements ruin discussions like this. Parents do not get thrown in jail and/or have their children taken away for utilizing corporal punishment. "

this isn't true in divorce situations. you don't lose custody of the child for the act itself, but that is the result anyway, should the other parent choose to enable the child and make an issue of it. if you disagree with me, i'll send you my court files.

i am no child beater. other consequences (lectures, tv removed from room, pc taken away, grounding)were attempted first. this was a very rare instance in the child's life. if i had treated and/or spoken to my mother the way this child did me, my dad (also never a hitter) would have popped me one too. the boundaries s&s speaks of are blurred when the other parent enables the child to do as he/she pleases with no consequence, all the while showing an equal amount of disrespect to me.

thought this has little to do with intentional farting, it is a comment on the differences of what was acceptable 30+ years ago vs now.