Sparingly. Households with multiple children being raised in an influential urban setting that don't dish out a whooping now and then become quite chaotic.

@IAJO163 At what point do you think that becomes ineffective and just fosters contempt? Essentially, at what age?

@bingst 5 kids 4 boys 1 girl in a gang infested neighborhood. Dad worked two jobs and was hardly there but he was a good man and a little physical discipline insured that his rules would be followed in his absence because my mother couldn't enforce them. In a bad environment he could be proud that none of his children served any time in prison which was something that happened frequently. I had only one child and didn't have to whip him but twice in his entire life. The environment was different for him. For me, I was taught to think before I acted and I've been thinking ever since, hence where I am today.