Well, now that a Texas judge has criminalized spanking ~
 

“You don’t spank children today,” District Court Judge Jose Longoria told a Texas mother of three in court. “In the old days, maybe we got spanked, but there was a different quarrel. You don’t spank children. You understand?”

 
~ we can expect a recent cultural trend in Great Britain to make it’s way across the pond shortly; Rise of the violent ‘Little Emperors’: Children lashing out at parents to get own way.
 
While corporal punishment can be emotionally damaging, especially in older children, a well-timed smack on the tush can work wonders with a misbehaving toddler. Children do not come with innate self-control, they depend on the adults in their their lives to help them develop it. If the adults abdicate that responsibility, or if the state won’t allow them them to exercise that responsibility, you get (surprise – surprise) out-of-control children ~
 

The ‘little emperors’ of this ‘spoilt generation’ lash out both at home – particularly at mothers who stand in their way – and school or even nursery.
 
Experts have blamed the decline in respect for authority on a lack of clear parental boundaries and rules, as well as an emphasis on children’s rights…
 
…Parent abuse and parent battery appear to be on the rise and what seems to underlie this is to do with parenting, the lack of boundaries and the reversal of authority….
 
…It’s the extreme end of the spoilt generation where they actually lash out at parents, almost exclusively their mothers. There’s a lack of impulse control, demands for instant gratification and not accepting deferred gratification.

 
Just what American society needs more of – wild kids.
And don’t we already have our own “Little Emperor”?