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28th August 2017
11:43am BST

Mayim then moves away from religion and focuses on science.
Unsurprisingly, research has found that hitting children when they do bad things does very little to stop the children from disobeying again.
In fact, it actually encourages them to disobey more often.
Dr. Elizabeth Gershoff says that evidence has shown time and time again that spanking does far more harm than good.
“Physical punishment doesn’t work to get kids to comply, so parents think they have to keep escalating it. That is why it is so dangerous,” she says.
Mayim agrees.
In her YouTube video, she condemns the laws currently in place in America, that protects the right to hit minors in some States.
“I understand how tempting it is to look for quick solutions for behavior that you don’t want to see continue (but) you can't hit your spouse, you can't hit your student (...) you can't even hit your dog, yet we have laws protecting, defending, and justifying hitting a child. It makes no sense."The social acceptance of spanking in the US is quite high, with 65 percent of Americans believing that the practice is correct and fair. The "reasonable chastisement" defence was outlawed in 2015 in Ireland, making it illegal to hit any minors.