it seems that in todays culture the opinion is that not physically disciplining children results in better, well adjusted children.

when I spoke with a taxi driver about this, his opinion was that such children as adults fared worse when faced with the slings and arrows of life.

I'd like to see if his opinion is fact based, as it would make an argument to swing society back to appropriate physical discipline. I mean, I reckon the whole reason that things came this was was that children used to get the tar whaled out of them for little reason.