Tribes know better how to raise well-adjusted children This will
hurt me more than it will hurt you ... smacking practices vary
widely. Should you discipline children by smacking them? There
are big differences in child-rearing practices among the world's
thousands of human societies - especially among its traditional,
small-scale tribal societies. Such societies still survive
beyond government control in Papua New Guinea and the Amazon,
and many traditional ways persist in rural areas of centrally
governed nations. Traditional societies are much more diverse
than modern industrial or Westernised societies. Some are more
opposed to smacking their children, others are more committed to
smacking than any Westernised society. Traditional societies
furnish natural experiments in child-rearing that have been
running for millennia. By comparing the results of these natural
experiments, we learn the effects of alternative child-rearing
schemes. Most hunter/gatherer and small-farming societies do not
smack their chil