“A spanking is never the way to correct anyone, neither is a child,” pediatrician Lucía Galán told Univision News. “ After beating our son we put an end to any other resource for education, negotiation and learning. What’s following that? Any. And besides, it’s useless. The only thing we will achieve is that it either generates fear (harmful for a child) or that he, by imitation, hits us or abuses force with other children and in other circumstances (As my mother hits me, I hit “, he points out.