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Item Where and how to draw the line between reasonable corporal punishment and abuse.(Law and contemporary problems, 2010) Coleman, D. L., Dodge, K. A., & Campbell, S. K.Nonaccidental physical injuries children suffer at the hands of their parents occur along a continuum that ranges from mild to severe. At the outer edges of this continuum, one might find, on the one hand, a slight swat to the buttocks, and on the other, a brutal beating. In the United States, the normative consensus appears to be that outsiders to the family are appropriately concerned only when the physical injury at issue causes serious harm; any injury short of a serious one is exclusively “family business.”