As used here and throughout this article, the word "reasonable" is a legal term of art meaning "acceptable."See infra IIA (setting out examples of corporal punishment legislation using this term).In law more generally, "reasonableness" describes a range of behavior that society or a particular community deems "normal" and thus not an appropriate basis for liability, guilt, or action otherwise.Its corollary in the social sciences is the term "normative," which is used throughout this article in the empirical sense, meaning a behavior that is practiced and accepted by a significant proportion (that is, at least a quarter) of the population or subgroup at issue.See also infra note 8 (explaining the relationship between scientific normativeness and cultural and legal norms, including in particular parental autonomy norms).Punishment in the Home: When Does Physical Discipline Cross the Line to Become Child Abuse?, 17 CHILD.LEGAL RTS.
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