Today, we’re going to hear an episode from The Stoop, a podcast hosted by Hana Baba and Leila Day. It recently won an award for podcasting by the National Association of Black Journalists.
And this episode is about something many of us grew up with in our homes — when you get in trouble and you get a whooping. Sometimes it’s with a belt, sometimes a switch from a tree, or a slipper spank on your behind. For many people, the homes we grow up in may normalize corporal punishment for kids but do we understand what that really means for the child? And when is it abuse?