OK, here's an interesting one.

As a parent, I have long advocated the rights of a parent to spank their child when necessary. There's a vast difference between a spanking and a beating, and children NEED to learn boundaries in order to grow up well adjusted in society.

I have been shouted down by the left in this country, claiming that spanking a child is "abuse", and that no parent should EVER lay a hand on their child (citing spanking a child as physical abuse is, in my opinion, the same as citing hugging a child as sexual abuse...the two are NOT interchangeable).

Now, Yahoo! News reports that, in Williamsburg, Virginia, an 8 year old child was arrested and taken into custody following a temper tantrum during which he head butted a teacher and kicked an assistant principal. He was charged with assault and battery.

I leave it to you, dear joeuser, to decide which is more inhumane: to administer a firm spanking to an unruly child, or to haul them off in handcuffs and take them to the county jail, a frightening place for an adult, let alone an 8 year old child.