Noted parenting expert John Rosemond will have none of this. Using a simple term of his own, he calls a ban on parental spanking “hogwash.” Rosemond says there is no credible evidence that spanking is harmful to children, and he doubts any assertion that spanking damages the parent-child relationship. “I talk to people my age who were spanked, some with belts or other devices, by their parents. With very rare exception, they claim to love their parents.”