Imagine that you see a parent throwing a kid up against the cart and smacking them a couple of times. How would that make you feel. public punishment should be permitted. Two reasons why it shouldn't be permitted is punishment should be kept at home, and that physical punishment may lead to psychological traumatizing.

First, punishment should be kept at home and not in public. Punishment is not be displayed in public, because society in general stereotype situations that happen in front of them. For example, if a person saw a kid get hit in the parking lot of a store. That person will automatically think that child gets hit on a regular bases. Which might be far from the truth, in fact that might have been the first time he or she got hit in 2 years. In fact a police officer might just see a parent hit...