Murray A. Straus Hitting is wrong. To hit someone is a violent thing to do.
Violence is a thing one person does to make another person hurt.
We want to treat children in ways that do not hurt or harm them. We want to be kind and gentle, not harsh. We want to be tender, merciful and compassionate. There is no situation that changes hitting from a wrong thing into a right thing. There is no excuse that magically makes hurting children kind or merciful.