ew dare to discipline lists a numbers of different types of corporal punishment which will cause physical damage. Boxing on the ear can burst an eardrum; shaking can cause a concussion, whiplash, blindness, serious brain damage, or even death; spanking can injure muscles, the sciatic nerve, pelvis, coccyx (tail bone) genitals or spine; hitting a child's hands can injure bones, blood vessels, joints and ligaments; it can induce premature osteoarthritis; a child who is hit can accidentally fall and seriously injure themselves. Furthermore, it also causes emotional damage. Firstly, children are taught how to use violence through the corporal punishment, and they may form concept that the strong can use force against the weak. Consequently, they may hit their siblings and friends, even their parents when they grow up. Secondly, spanking some degree is a sexual violation, the nerve there connect to the body's sexual nerve centres. Spanking may cause sexu
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