Editing Corporal punishment (section)

===Prehistory===
Author [[Jared Diamond]] writes that [[hunter-gatherer]] societies have tended to use little corporal punishment whereas agricultural and industrial societies tend to use progressively more of it. Diamond suggests this may be because hunter-gatherers tend to have few valuable physical possessions, and misbehavior of the child would not cause harm to others' property.<ref name="Diamond">{{cite book |last1=Diamond |first1=Jared |title=The World Until Yesterday |url=https://archive.org/details/worlduntilyester00diam_0 |url-access=registration |date=2013 |publisher=Viking |isbn=978-1-101-60600-1 |at=Ch. 5}}</ref>

Researchers who have lived among the [[Parakanã]] and [[Ju/'hoansi]] people, as well as some [[Aboriginal Australians]], have written about the absence of the physical punishment of children in those cultures.<ref name="Gray">{{cite journal |last=Gray |first=Peter |date=2009 |title=Play as a Foundation for Hunter-Gatherer Social Existence |journal=American Journal of Play |volume=1 |issue=4 |pages=476–522 |url=http://www.journalofplay.org/issues/1/4/article/play-foundation-hunter-gatherer-social-existence |access-date=1 October 2017 |archive-date=14 April 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190414143551/https://www.journalofplay.org/issues/1/4/article/play-foundation-hunter-gatherer-social-existence |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Wilson writes:

{{quote|Probably the only generalization that can be made about the use of physical punishment among primitive tribes is that there was no common procedure [...] Pettit concludes that among primitive societies corporal punishment is rare, not because of the innate kindliness of these people but because it is contrary to developing the type of individual personality they set up as their ideal [...] An important point to be made here is that we cannot state that physical punishment as a motivational or corrective device is 'innate' to man.{{sfnp|Wilson|1971|loc=2.1}}}}