It should be noted that on the [url=https://www.oag.state.tx.us/AG_Publications/txts/childabuse2.shtml#prevent]Texas Attorney General's website[/url], there is a brief statement about spanking. [quote]Texas law allows the use of force, but not deadly force, against a child by the child's parent, guardian, or other person who is acting in loco parentis. Most parents do, in fact, use corporal punishment (in the form of spanking) at least occasionally, and most do not, in fact, consider it abusive. [...] The law does not attempt to arbitrate between the different views on the best method of disciplining a child. What we do know is that severe corporal punishment can be extremely damaging and dangerous, and this is what the law prohibits as abuse.[/quote]