When You Can't Spank Your Kids on this edition of Truth and Love.

I'm Heath Lambert and you're listening to Truth and Love, a podcast of the Association of Certified

Biblical Counselors, where we seek to provide biblical solutions for the problems that

people face. The name of this podcast about not being able to spank your kids is based on a pretty

significant assumption. And the assumption is that you should spank your kids. This is, of course, very controversial in our culture,

but it is something that the Bible teaches. In fact, the Bible endorses the controlled use

of spanking for correcting children who have disobeyed. That in itself might be the topic of a

different podcast, but today we're talking about a special

challenge to spanking when a parent can't spank their kids either because maybe they're a foster

parent or because their kid is too old. To answer this issue for us is Dr. Stuart Scott. Dr. Scott is

the director of membership at the Association of Certified

Biblical Counselors and is a fellow with ACBC. And he participated in the ACBC online training that

happens every year. And as part of that training, we have a question and answer time with the teachers.

And some of the questions that came

in for Dr. Scott had to do with this issue. And here is what he had to say. The next question,

does the Bible require us to spank our children? And then follow up, what about foster care?

Well, this is a tough one, especially in our society, and I believe there's

about 12 plus more countries where it's illegal to spank your child. As I look through the scriptures,

you won't find a command to spank your child.

It's in the wisdom literature.

It's in the book of Proverbs where you'll find spanking.

It's wise to do in the early years.

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