"Cursory Google results show surveys and polls where 67% of parents approve of corporal punishment and half of parents spank their children regularly." Polls o

"Cursory Google results show surveys and polls where 67% of parents approve of corporal punishment and half of parents spank their children regularly." Polls of parents as people with children, or people who have had children? Most every person I know with kids today is against such punishment. But their parents, those whose "kids" are now in their forties, have radically different views. And there are far more old people who have had kids than parents whose kids are currently under 18. Imho this issue is the quintessential generational device. That 67% will drop as the old people die off along with their antiquated notions of violence upon children.