The following is from Baby and Child Care, 1998, pp. 437-438. This was the last edition of Baby and Child Care. ...
"There are several reasons to avoid physical punishment. It teaches children that the larger, stronger person has the power to get his way, whether or not he is in the right. Some spanked children then feel quite justified in beating up on smaller ones. The American tradition of spanking may be one reason there is much more violence in our country than in any other comparable nation."

Dr. Spock was a member of the EPOCH-USA Board of Directors right up until the time of his death. Thus, he was so strongly committed to never, ever hitting children, that he loaned his name in support of the no-hitting cause!
Benjamin Spock, M.D. died on March 15, 1998.

As you just read, Benjamin Spock taught that physical punishment of a child would lead to bullying and increased public violence. The truth is that Dr. Spock was a nutcase who rejected the Bible just as did the wicked U.S. Supreme Court in 1