which simply means discipline brings about a stronger stable mind
The idea that making spanking illegal has saved children from physical is ridiculous. Parents who would hit a child to the point they are injured will do it anyway.
Religion is a good point to bring up, because humans have a need for purpose and in the absence of religion, many can't create a healthy purpose for themselves, so they make religions out of social movements and increasingly extreme ideologies, without the community as a whole to temper it.
As a child always up to mischief with older brothers my bum looked like the stripes on a flag pretty often, lived to tell the story and learned lesson. I think parent feels more pain than the child does, having a wooden spoon for my boys growing up spared my hand sometimes.
Humans need purpose and community, growing up with a father who attended and mother who did not, one learned to appreciate from different angles when young. I don't attend and nor do my children, I did take them when young then by their own selection when teenagers they made their own decisions. Each individual has right to choice, mine is nature yet I am steadfastly against this climate change ideology and how it is being handled.