I think that the spanking also relies on the style of parenting you use. If you just scream and yell at them all the time, and smack them all the time also, the kids won't listen. If you use punishment, such as sending to their room/can't use a toy or something along those lines, along with spanking sparingly, then they'll respect you. I think that with my mother, she cared enough about me that when she had to spank me, I got the point of what I did was wrong.
For some people, spanking works, for others it doesn't. There isn't a universal system on how to raise a child, because each of them has their own attitudes. I can say that I'm totally different then my brother and sister who used to get spanked all the time, but I was raised in pretty much the same environment.
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