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Usually out of frustration when the kids won't do as the adults wants them to. But occasionally as deliberate punishment for something the kids have done, in the belief that the pain will teach the kids not to do that thing again.

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It isn't. Hitting a child says to the child that might makes right and that violence is an acceptable response to a problem.

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