Do you think it's appropriate for parents to spank their children as a punishment? (50% poles do)

In Poland it is prohibited by law to beat people and children obv, (in australia and canada it's apparently awwwight if you use it "reasonably"

I am completely against it, my mom never hit me. She did shout a lot at me though and it had really bad impact on me. We talked recently about it even and she felt bad about it.

I think that if one gets driven mad by their child and thinks it's a good reason to spank them, they should not have children in first place and resolve their dumb mental issues with a professional

But some people (here is data from a polish report) https://fdds.pl/_Resources/Persistent/a/7/5/8/a758b76965a114d233d30bbdb81f58845242d7a6/Postawy%20i%20stosowanie%20kar%20-%20raport.pdf

In Poland, the percentage of opponents of corporal punishment has been syste-

matically increasing. In 2022 more than half (59%) of participants in our study be-

lieved that beating children as a punishment should never be used.

• Since 2017 there has been a substantial increase in support for the legal ban on corpo-

ral punishment by parents against their children. In 2022 it was supported by amajori-

ty (70%) of respondents. More than half of the respondents (57%) know that in Poland

the use of physical punishment by parents against their children is legally prohibited.

• The majority of respondents supported a legal ban on slapping a child across the face

(70%), beating hard with a hand (68%), beating with a belt or other object (68%), pulling by

the hair or ear (66%) and shaking or pushing (62%), and half (50%) of respondents agreed

with the legal prohibition of spanking children (this percentage increased from 34% in 2017).

• Half of the respondents (51%) witnessed verbal disciplining a child in the year pre-

ceding the survey, and 39% when physically disciplining a child. In total, 60% of

the respondents encountered a situation of child abuse.

• A significant proportion of witnesses of both verbal (38%) and physical (41%) cha-

stisement remained passive towards these behaviors.

• According to respondents, police and NGOs are the institutions that children who

have been victims of maltreatment can count on to the greatest extent.

• Most parents at least several times disciplined their children verbally (70%) and

used prohibitions and restrictions (70%), and 39% of respondents more than once

disciplined their children with corporal punishment. The most common method of

disciplining a child with force was spanking (36%).

• 6% of parents admitted to frequent disciplining their children physically. There

was a positive relationship between the frequent use of various forms of corporal

punishment by parents – all were significantly correlated with one another.

• Strong nervousness (38%) is the most frequently indicated by parents as a reason

for the use of physical punishment.

• The prevalence of parental burnout among parents aged 18–44 was 4%. The level

of parental burnout was positively correlated with the frequent infliction of cor-

poral punishment.

• Respondents find the lack of time, tiredness and trouble in balancing professional

life and the role of being a parent as the biggest difficulties.

• According to the respondents, own experiences, family members or friends, as

well as psychologists and educators are the most important sources of knowledge

about raising children.

• ¾ of the respondents said that people raising children should be supported by the

family, and 67% see the state in this role.

• Adults had various memories of the physical punishments, which were used by

their parents when they were children. For some of them, these situations were

traumatic, while others claimed that they did not leave any emotional scars.

So, do you think it's appropriate for parents to spank their children as a punishment?