| Surveys suggest that today only 50 to 65 percent of American parents say they administer spankings. |
| But not his mother's marital meltdown, nor the groom's taste for spankings or even the nun in the bedroom will stop him from getting his gran to the church on time. |
| They got a lot more spankings than they probably deserved, but I didn't have a time. |
| I mean, I've gotten spankings and stuff, but Mom rarely smacks anymore. |
| The child adapts to this by accepting spankings and beating in some cases because it is right because the parent initiates the acts. |
| If you were bad, you were subject to verbal abuse, spankings, or you may not have been picked up at all. |
