Also because your parents failed to teach you how to solve your problems without resorting to violence like an animal, you put another kid in the hospital.
I'm sorry, but my parents didn't hit me just because, or for minor issues.
I'm not saying that there weren't or aren't parents who do that. My parents only used spankings as a last resort, or as punishment for a very serious offence. I didn't get hit every single time I broke a window or got a bad grade or didn't do homework, I got hit for sending a kid to the hospital (the only one I really remember).
But thanks for calling my parents animals, also bad parents. I really appreciate those personal insults.
Just because you believe there is a connection, doesn't mean there is one. I could easily just claim the same; There was a shitload of fighting constantly in schools when I was growing up because we were all taught by our parents that violence solves problems.
Fine, you can make that assertion. There is a real lack of knowing which is right, of course.
Then again, kids will always be kids. If you spank them, they will either A) stop or B) keep doing it. If you don't spank them and punish them a different way, they will either A) stop or B) keep doing it. How the parent should punish them is up to the parent, not what is "public belief" to do.