Children in the united states are not as lucky as inuit children. Parents can spank their children at home. Similarly school can punish rules about what is reasonable. These rules look at the child age the child past behavior why the person is hitting the child and so on. However the law says that officials cannot hit people in prisons or mental hospitals can hit schoolchildren and not prisoners. Many school districts have their own laws and rules that forbid hitting students. These laws change from states. In contrast in contrast in sweden it is against the law for anyine-parent or teacher-to hit a child