To hurt an innocent child is a real cry for help to someone who may be dealing with the broken child within themselves. And when our children or not safe an act to refuge them must immediately take place from the measures of extensive disciplinary acts and actions reprimanded through some parents whose actions may have been a concern to justify punishments that back fired from their past up bringing through old school, beatings.
The bible relates clarity in Proverbs: 13:24, if we have the time to read before justifying to the world how our parents once used disciplinary resolutions if we did not follow the rules.