Removing privileges, like spankings, can range out of control and there have been cases of parents not allowing their children bathroom access, food, or water.
You are grasping at straws here karrie, desperately trying to equate removing of privileges with spanking (and somehow implying that removal of privileges is even worse than spanking.
Bathroom access, food and water are privileges? Only by your definition. Removal of privileges means exactly that, it does not mean starving the child for weeks or months (as you seem to imply).
The punishment I handed out to my son (he must eat cereal and not bagel) comes under the heading of removal of privileges. Or no TV for a week, or perhaps take away his play station, keep him home from that party he has been looking forward to etc.
But denial of food and water? Are you for real? Do you really believe that those who don’t spank their children deny them food and water? No wonder you have such set views, such strong animosity against those who don’t spank their children.
Where do you get such trash anyway, from religious right websites? I wouldn’t think even they would stoop so low as to claim that those who don’t spank their children deny them food and water.