Actually it's not illegal to give your kids a smack around the top of the legs, it's illegal to smack them hard enough to leave a mark.
It's because of people with dangerous left wing ideals that there's a total lack of respect for adult authority these days. Children are not taught that there's always a consequence for an action.
I'm not advocating needless, brutal violence towards children, lines must be drawn. Children do not understand reasoning the way that an adult does, and is it any wonder our 7 year old children act like adults these days, robbed of their childhood because t