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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> 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>

'''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).

Parents are urged by the [[Bible]] to "beat" their offspring when they misbehave<ref>[http://www.biblewiki.be/wiki/Proverbs_Chapter_23%2C_Verse_14/KJV Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell.]</ref> In modern times, such beating often involves striking a child's buttocks with an open hand or with a paddle. However, since a girl's buttocks and the upper third of the backs of her thighs contain sexually sensitive nerve endings<ref>These nerve endings are naturally stimulated during dorso-ventral copulation. See [http://center-for-nonverbal-studies.org/lovesig5.htm "saddle area".]</ref> that, when stimulated, send nerve impulses directly to her clitoris, striking these areas may cause her to learn to associate violent assault with sexual stimulation. In the case of Garcia v. Miera, a girl was held "upside down by her ankles" and beaten on the fronts of her thighs.<ref>[http://openjurist.org/817/f2d/650/garcia-garcia-v-miera-jd "Miera hit Garcia five times on the front of the leg between the knee and the waist".]</ref> This procedure avoided striking sexually sensitive areas of the girl's body.

[[Darrel Reid]], head of [[Focus on the Family]] - Canada (an [[evangelical Christian]] group) said that "The theological underpinning for family corporal punishment is tied up with the responsibility that God gives families for raising the young. You can find it particularly in the early books of the Bible, where God says your responsibility is not just nurturing but also correcting them."<ref>[http://www.religioustolerance.org/spankin3.htm Child corporal punishment: spanking] at "Religious tolerance" website.</ref>

[[Darrel Reid]], head of [[Focus on the Family]] - Canada (an [[evangelical Christian]] group) said that "The theological underpinning for family corporal punishment is tied up with the responsibility that God gives families for raising the young. You can find it particularly in the early books of the Bible, where God says your responsibility is not just nurturing but also correcting them."<ref>[http://www.religioustolerance.org/spankin3.htm Child corporal punishment: spanking] at "Religious tolerance" website.</ref>