Cents - if by providing realistic corrective actions to our kids without child services taking our kids or parents going to jail you mean hitting them then that is the very definition of child abuse. Parents who hit children are the VERY definition of bullies. A bully picks on weaker people that can't protect themselves. So any parent, who outweighs their child by 150 plus pounds & is how many times larger than child, thinks it is ok for them to hit a child IS A BULLY. We teach our kids not to hit, not to be a bully, but from the time they are small we bully them into behavior we want by causing them physical harm. We expect them to allow us to hit them in the name of "discipline" and to be taught a lesson. In doing this we are teaching our children to be willing victims as soon as they can crawl but we wonder why we have such domestic violence & rape statistics. As an adult if we are unable to find non violent ways to correct our children, we are unfit to be parents. It's CHILD ABUSE.