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'''Corporal punishment''' is the infliction of physical pain in response to wrongdoing, typically by methodically striking a particular part of the offender's body with an implement such as a paddle, or with the open hand. Its purpose is to correct, reform and deter the miscreant, and to deter others from similar misconduct. In the state of Texas it is lawful for a public official to use a four-foot-long board to strike a woman's hand, hip, leg and buttocks with sufficient force to cause bleeding.<ref>Deana Pollard Sacks, (2009). [http://lawreview.law.ucdavis.edu/issues/42-4_Sacks.pdf "State Actors Beating Children: A Call for Judicial Relief".] ''UC Davis Law Review,'' Volume 42, No. 4, page 1167, April 2009.</ref>

'''Corporal punishment''' is the infliction of physical pain in response to wrongdoing, typically by methodically striking a particular part of the offender's body with an implement such as a paddle, or with the open hand. Its purpose is to correct, reform and deter the miscreant, and to deter others from similar misconduct. In the state of Texas it is lawful for a public official to use a four-foot-long board to strike a woman's hand, hip, leg and buttocks with sufficient force to cause bleeding.<ref>Deana Pollard Sacks, (2009). [http://lawreview.law.ucdavis.edu/issues/42-4_Sacks.pdf "State Actors Beating Children: A Call for Judicial Relief".] ''UC Davis Law Review,'' Volume 42, No. 4, page 1167, April 2009.</ref> In the state of Mississippi it is lawful for a public official to use a paddle to strike the buttocks of a woman who is 5 months pregnant.<ref>[http://www.aclu.org/pdfs/humanrights/aviolenteducation_report.pdf ''A Violent Education: Corporal Punishment of Children in US Public Schools.''] Page 52.</ref> This sort of beating causes shock waves that propagate through the ears, brain and other organs of the fetus, damaging the fetus and shortening its life.<ref>[http://www.biologynews.net/archives/2008/09/11/violence_against_women_impairs_childrens_health.html "Violence against women impairs children's health".] ''Biology News Net.'' September 11, 2008, 11:19 PM.</ref>  In addition to this physical damage, the woman's stress responses to the beating will cause further damage the fetus.<ref>[http://shop.nationalgeographic.com/ngs/product/dvds/best-sellers/stress%3A-portrait-of-a-killer-dvd ''Stress: Portrait of a Killer''.] First broadcast on September 24, 2008.</ref>

[[Spanking]] of children and teens, whether at home or at school, is the most usual kind of corporal punishment. Parents are urged by the [[Bible]] to spank their offspring when they misbehave, for instance in [[Proverbs]] 13:24 (He who withholds the rod hateth his son).

[[Spanking]] of children and teens, whether at home or at school, is the most usual kind of corporal punishment. Parents are urged by the [[Bible]] to spank their offspring when they misbehave, for instance in [[Proverbs]] 13:24 (He who withholds the rod hateth his son).