Spare the rod-stay out of jail

What on Earth is Rep.Jay Kaufman smoking on?He is pushing H.B. 3922,which would basically make parental corporal punishment illegal in Massachusetts!No government entity should dictate family issues or take power away from the parents.Abuse is one thing,but warming up your childs rear-end to discipline them is NOT abuse!Parents who don't spank will not go to jail,but odds are their kids will eventually if authority is stripped from loving,responsible parents.Call it "policing at home" if you will.When children learn that there are consequences for breaking rules,they are less likely to repeat their actions.Look at the decine in social and behavorial standards in public schools since corporal punishment there was eliminated.People my age can recall when they got spanked AT school by the Principal and when they took that note home,they got another butt-whipping there.Now they get a vacation from school.
When I first heard it on O'Reilly,I was taken aback.He (Rep.Kaufman)needs to divert his attention to the kids who really need protection,the many children who ARE abused.Is anyone else just dumbfounded by this whole thing?With this mindset,no wonder theres kids getting arrested for fighting and stealing and worse all the time-they never learned that there are undesirable repercussions for their misbehavior.