If you want to change the discussion to "spankings are fine", that's your choice. The article you posted talked about a "custom-made, arm-length paddle" - using that on a child is not only behaving like a bully, but it is violence against that child.
note: my children are very happy - esp since I've corrected my voting habits from 2000. <g>
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