We discipline children and train them in the ways of the Lord. We may spank them when necessary, but that's not beating them.
So you believe it's OK to physically strike ("spank") a child to correct them?
Why is it not OK for a man to physically strike a woman to correct her?
Surely it's hypocrisy if you are in favor of correction but not towards yourself.
Women are told to be in obedience to the man, and that it is not a shameful 2nd class thing.
Proverbs 13:24
He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.
Notice the word rod here, it doesn't say "light touch of the hand", being hit with a rod hurts. It's supposed to leave bruises.
Also, to equate correcting a child with beating a wife is incredible. Do you have a verse in scripture to show that you're suppose to beat a wife?
How about we use God's correction of His bride as an example?
2 Kings 21:
[SUP]12 [/SUP]Therefore thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Behold, I am bringing such evil upon Jerusalem and Judah, that whosoever heareth of it, both his ears shall tingle.
[SUP]13 [/SUP]And I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria, and the plummet of the house of Ahab: and I will wipe Jerusalem as a man wipeth a dish, wiping it, and turning it upside down.
[SUP]14 [/SUP]And I will forsake the remnant of mine inheritance, and deliver them into the hand of their enemies; and they shall become a prey and a spoil to all their enemies;
Notice how God didn't say 'I will stop the rain from coming for 7 days' or some small punishment like that. People died. It was violent and bloody.