Is Spanking Detrimental to children? (NO) Spanking has been a big controversy for many years, the United States is the only country who hasn’t made spanking Illegal. Although many states have made some kind of laws about unnecessary physical punishments when discipling children, but each state has their own laws on how far a parent or guardian can go before it’s considered child abuse. Spanking is technically considered a corporal punishment and has been around for many centuries. Corporal punishment is defined as a physical punishment such as hitting. For many centuries it was okay to use corporal punishment on children at home and at school, children where usually spanked with a hard hand or a hard solid object like a ruler or paddle. They