Yes. I got the belt numerous times throughout my childhood, no more than a dozen or so times. Each time was warranted. I always tested the limits as a child, I knew what I was capable of and the resulting consequence but since then and even now I am always willing to take a chance. More oft than not I am rewarded with the desired result. If anything it taught me pain was only temporary, after the first few it never bothered me. I just assumed fair was fair, my old man got hip to it and instead also started withholding my bike and skateboard, one time yanking the batteries on my truck. To each their own, it is none of my bussiness how someone disciplines their child. Now if they do it publicly and it comes off as over aggressive like backhanding a child or punching them I will confront them. Never had to though but I would. My father never laid a hand on my sister, not even with the belt. Why because she is a girl, at that a daddies girl. I love my father, would kill for him, bury the body and never breath a word about said body while sleeping like a baby thereafter.