I come from the Baltic States, where spanking was very common and it still is these days. I come from a rather average family, having two younger brothers. We lived in the suburbs, in a small private house near to the forest.
Both of my parents had got spanked in their childhood and they were strong believers in ‘sparing the rod and spoiling the child’ – well, at least my mum was, since she was the one to administer most of the punishments. She was and still is a very controlling type, while my father on the other hand was calm and quite reasonable when it came to punishing us. He did belt us couple of times, however, and when he did, he made the most of it. But since he disciplined us only couple of times all together, we were more afraid of our mother.