children in the United states are hot as lucky as Inuit children parents cam spank their children at home similarly schools can punish children by spanking or hitting as lone as it reasonable there are rules about what is reasonable These rules look at 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 in the United states Some people in prisons or that officials can hit schoolchildren and not prisoners many school districts have their own laws and rules that forbid hitting students these laws change from state to state It really depends on where you live in the United states In contrast in Sweden it is against law for anyone-parent or teacher-to hit a child