My friend's mom, who is severely alcoholic, beats him and punches him and broke is leg in three different places by hitting it with a baseball bat. He now has since ran away from home, smokes pot and shoots heroine, and lives on the street. That is child abuse and an example of the results of said child abuse. My parents spanked me and yelled at me and even threw away the candy jar, I remember vaguely, and from stories I have been told, that when I was five, I stabbed my dads brand new LCD monitor with a kitchen knife. Man, I got spanked for that, and it taught me it was wrong. I didn't get off easy, and more so was the humiliation of being spanked than the actual spanking itself, was more or less my punishment. I have been careful about computer monitors since. Back on tract though, I am pretty polite and know to listen to and respect my parents and take their advice to heart. I was disciplined through minor corporal punishment, and am not too crazy. Two cases, one representing corporal discipline, and the other representing child abuse, see a difference?