According to the utilitarian approach corporal punishment of children administered by parents is not morally admissible. The principle of utility is the action of making everyone happy, corporal punishment does not do this, in fact it creates negative impact psychologically, behaviorally and decreases the development of the child’s brain. You have two choices, one being to cause physical harm to the child or perform the alternatives to corporal punishment, with utilitarianism one has to choose whether or not it creates the greatest happiness, the goal is to maximize happiness. One has to look at the benefits and harms of the two choices, when looking at administering corporal punishment there are more harms than benefits, but when one looks
