Why not? Also, notice your choice of words: the working class parent "physically punishes"; the middle class parent "beats"....
>but there is everything
>wrong with a middle class dad endowing his child with all the gadgets money
>can buy and then secretly beating him/her for disobedience.
Why?
If beating children is OK, why is it OK for the working class but not for the middle class?
Joanna B.