Children are the most vulnerable group of people in our society. Their lack of wisdom and continuously evolving bodies predispose them to a larger number of impulsive behaviors than adults. Children lack the discipline to make well thought out decisions given their maturation process is not a linear progression and they tend to act on impulse rather than logical thinking. Most children develop the ability to rationalize and cognitive thinking during their first years of schooling. Adult supervision is an accepted social norm that now influences how we legislate children's behavior. It no longer is the case that parents allow their children to play outside for the majority of the day only to come back home when dinner is ready. We have agreed as a society that the risk of harm is too great to allow children to go unsupervised for long periods of time. This constant exposure to children has brought forth many novel predicaments that many adults have not experienced in the past. One of the more lighter predicaments in recent history is the quandary of corporal punishment as an effective and moral option of parenting. "Corporal punishment to discipline children has been argued for decades" by every position imaginable (Gershoff, July 2002). Due to most of the research equally distributed throughout each position I can only write from personal experiences juxtaposed research that benefits my thesis and conclude that corporal punishment is moral in most circumstances but rarely, if ever, an effective method of parenting. "Parenting" is a recent phenomenon introduced to society by researchers and psychologists whom are vague at best about their own success at parenting (Gershoff). It is evident that past generations considered children to be obligations more so than people with feelings and needs other than food and clothing. I recall reading This Side Of Paradise by F.