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Hitting children teaches them to become hitters themselves

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Parents are too busy to treat children with patience and empathy. So, it's surely wrong and unfair to punish a child for responding in a natural way to having important needs neglected.

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Physical punishment stops the child from learning how to resolve conflict in an effective and humane way.

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Punishment may appear to produce "good behaviour" in the early years, but always at high price, paid by parents and by society as a whole, as the child enters adolescence and early childhood.

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Punishment interferes with the bond between parent and child, as it is not human nature to feel loving toward someone who hurts us.

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If the parent is unaware of alternative methods, punishment can escalate to more frequent and dangerous actions againts a child.

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Physical punishment gives the dangerous and unfair message that "might make right" , that it is permissible to hurt someone else, provided they are smaller and less powerful than u are

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physical punishment gives the message that hitting is an appropriate way to express feelings and to solve problems because children learn through parental  modeling