Shall we not flaunt degrees? Appeal to authority is also a fallacy.

I can imagine that some of the most backward and uneducated folks living in the tall piney woods may have whupped the daylights out of their kids (something we would all probably agree on as being child abuse) but if genuine love was in the motivation the majority of those children would see and understand it at some point in their lives, if not immediately.

The most techinically correct clinician of child psychology who followed the prescribed method(s) of child rearing without love is, in my opinion, going to have a messed up child, more than likely.

Communication, consistency, and love now abide, but love is the greatest of all. People of all sizes know when they are loved.