Assertion: spanking | /r/HasProperty | necessary
Facets:
value: rarely,
type: DEGREE
value: after 6 years
type: TEMPORAL
value: after 10 years of age
type: TEMPORAL
value: only occasionally
type: DEGREE
value: to promote child discipline
type: PURPOSE
Source sentences:
text: Although parents and other advocates of spanking often claim that spanking is necessary to promote child discipline, studies have shown that parents tend to apply physical punishment inconsistently and tend to spank more often when they are angry or under stress.
text: Sometimes a spanking is needed.
text: Spankings should only occasionally be necessary after 6 years and rarely, if ever, after 10 years of age.
text: Do you think spanking is necessary?
text: People are very committed to the idea that spanking is necessary not because they want to hit their kids, but because they believe that it works when other things don’t.
text: Whether you’re at home or in the car in the parking lot of Target, when a spanking is needed, there you go.