God! I forgot my article review...you are absolutely correct!...My parents practiced extremely limited corporal punishment...rarely ever used...they gave me a choice every time...a corporal act using a rubber thong OR a weeks stay in the room...NO I'm NOT a Masochist!...but I always took the corporal act because I was a kid that didn't like the lock up!...My mother applied the punishment because my Dad couldn't do it!...I can count on the fingers of one hand how many beatings I had...when I hit puberty(13) the corporal punishment stopped...in short I got jail time in my room for a period...My Father informed me that I was too old to be beaten anymore...and frankly, my Mother was sick of it!...So I did room time because they KNEW I hated it...I still got out to eat & I was allowed to READ as much as I wanted...(NO TV!)...Today I'm against beatings mainly because today's parents go way overboard with no idea how MUCH to discipline the child...in short they don't know what is too excessive & damaging to a child...I suggest 'jail time' in the room!...It worked for me!