Julia, Sisyphus Shrugged, has been reading some of Lisa Whelchel’s book Creative Corrections and has some thoughts on spanking:

(FWIW, my persistent thought about spanking is that it’s the last refuge of the incompetent, but mileage varies on that one. At the very least, a parent who can’t think of a compelling reason to restrict their communication with someone a fifth their size with imperfect impulse control to the non-violent might want to consider carefully their decision to homeschool that child in light of the questionable nature of their own impulse control.)

I would extend this to suggest that they should have considered carefully their decision to have children in the first place.
NB: The permalink for Julia’s post on this seem to be missing tonight so this is the one at 10:04 PM on October 21st, 2003.