Should children be beaten up ?

I think that a good parent should teach discipline without hitting the child. I know several people who beat their children and that's just because they don't know how to handle them. I agree that sometimes a child deserves a slap or something like that because children can behave very badly. But the problem with beating children is that some children don't know where the line is. I mean, I have this relative who doesn't know how to handle her children, they yell all the time, talk too much, don't know how to behave around grown up people, and they always have to be in the center of the attention, they say dirty words and their parents laugh and then when they repeat that word in front of other people their mother yells at them or even hit them but she doesn't understand that its all her fault because the child doesn't know what that word means but he knows that his mother and father were laughing when he said that to them so the child wanted other people to laugh too. So, now her children behave very badly and she can't make them stop until she hits them so they do keep doing what they want until they get beaten up and they won't stop what every their mother does, except beats them. I think that is wrong. I was there for one day and her child was yelling all the time. I told her I wouldn't talk to her if she is yelling because I can't understand what she is saying when she yells. When you have a child yelling while she talks all day it can really drive you nuts so I understand why after the whole day of yelling her mother hits her to make her stop but I thinks there are different ways to achieve that. Anyway, the child insisted on yelling for another 10 minutes but when she saw I wasn't paying any attention to her when she was yelling because I didn't UNDERSTAND what she was saying she just started talking quietly. Her mother was astonished and said that it was a miracle. Now you probably think that it is easy to say that when i was with them just for 1 they but I don't think that beating children is the best punishment. I know that some children make very hard mistakes like spiting on people or even kicking people or braking something on purpose but I don't think that they will not do it again only because they got beaten up when they did it the first time. I think that you can't correct one wrong by another wrong and that in this case means that one can't beat a child because had beaten her brother or sister because then the child thinks that's the proper way to punish someone and its not.

u kno wot.. charity begins at home, so so discipline.so those things that are to be corrected should be dealt with atmost importance at home, n to counsel a child is a sickening thought , punishments are good and fine until it does not end up in a torture

Spare the rod and spoil the child, a little beating for gross wrongs should be done by parents-we all got beaten and we grew up knowing there are things we just cant do and get away with it-in my neighborhood, some of the most pampered children are the biggest failures in their adult life-they got into relationships in their early teens, and there are girls i have known to have gotten pregnant at 14!! My view is combine counselling and beating, ofcourse not beating with clubs or fists, but asking the child to lie down and you administer canes with small soft rids-which leave some painful but not injurious effects.