The messed up adults

In the the past children were seen as young adults with problems. Parents were told not to become to emotionally attached to them, because of their high mortality rates. So children were treated as adults, and very harshly. They were beaten, misunderstood and undesired. There were many ways to discipline these “messed up adults,” but the most common was beating.

Beating children has been a big issue in recent times, but in the past it was the most normal thing to do. Children behaved bad, they got beaten. Even up to the early nineteen hundreds school teachers were allowed to beat their students. The question is, is beating wrong? For some people it is, but for others it is the best way to discipline children. What do you think?