Thank you for this thoughtful response. I've been disappointed overall that so few people read this article. I have other articles that have attracted a lot of readers, but this one seemed to get overlooked. My experience has been that most people aren't comfortable with this topic. Either it triggers bad memories of their own childhoods or it triggers feelings of guilt because they spanked their own kids. Rather than see this as an important issue that the US needs to confront, we tend to justify our behaviors. Lots of other countries all over the world have confronted this issue years ago and determined that children have rights to bodily safety just like grownups and gods.