It was legal at one timer for those to considered themselves superior to hit other adults. Should that still be so? Should whites be able to hit African Americans and men be able to hit women?Of course not. So, why should it be allowed to hit a child who can't defend themselves.

Here is a petition to end the physical assault of children as 25 countries have beat us to:
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/my?ltl=1273583569

"Spare the rod, spoil the child" as the Bible tells us"

That phrase is not even in the bible!It was written by Samul Butler in the 1600s
"Origin

Spare the rod and spoil the child.This phrase has quite a long genesis. The coiner of the version that we use in everyday speech was Samuel Butler, in Hudibras, the satirical poem on the factions involved in the English Civil War, which was first published in 1662:

Love is a Boy,
by Poets styl'd,
Then Spare the Rod,
and spill the Child".
http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/328950.html