Thank you for not automatically demonizing/vilifying your parents. Oftentimes when parents hit their kids, the story goes like this:
1. The kid does something bad.
2. The parent hits the kid.
3. Everyone turns against the parent because the news and/or social media ignores the bad thing the kid did.
Most parents who hit their kids are not evil, deranged or psychotic, but desperate. They hit their kids because nothing else is working.
When you see someone become your worst nightmare, you should become highly motivated to either straighten up and fly right in hopes of preventing that someone from becoming your worst nightmare again. Other kids decide to rat their parents out, or hit back, or escape.
Here's an idea for lowering instances of parents hitting their kids (not eliminating, but reducing), and discouraging kids who are hit from hitting back or squealing to CPS or running away. Do a survey of thousands of parents. Ask them if they've hit their kids (one survey found 90% of parents have hit their kids), and then ask them why. Use those results to create a list of "Top 10 reasons parents hit their kids", and share it with the world using any reasonable and feasible means.
Child Protective Services does more harm then good because it makes parents more likely to throw their hands up in despair instead of using disciplinary strategies that actually work, and it also makes non-parents more uncomfortable with the idea of becoming parents.
Pain has educational value. Pain discourages you from doing stupid things. Pain also helps you keep your priorities straight. Too many people who haven't felt very much physical pain are too uninhibited and think that getting their feelings hurt or getting laughed at or rejected is the worst thing that could happen to them.
