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Originally Posted by Cadaverous Pallor
It's horrifying.
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You're right, it is horrifying. I can hardly imagine a less acceptable justification for hitting a person (let alone a child), regardless of actual damage done than simply being angry or frustrated.
Fortunately, as I said, I never felt that from my mom (stepdad was never the issuer of physical punishment) and most of the time felt she was a pushover (my childhood was full of month-long groundings that would be forgotten in two days when she was reminded that having us confined to the house was more of a punishment for her than for us).
Only one person in our house was ever prone to violent outbursts and that was me. And whatever bit of cranial chemistry was causing that seems to have flipped off like a light switch in April 1985 which is the last time I ever hit somebody in anger.