I smacked my children very occasionally, when I was desperate and exhausted, and very much wish I hadn’t. I am ashamed it.
I was never smacked. My mother said she smacked my brother occasionally, but only because she had no idea how to cope with him. Like me, she was ashamed of it. We saw it as failure.
My grandchildren are never smacked.
How can hitting a child ever be right?
The Republic of Ireland and their tensions with migrants.