Discipline---corporal punishment is good for kids, when used sparingly, if you are giving it to them regularly, then there are some issues with parenting...and if you take a look, they had a shitload of kids, many were adopted. Thet obviously didn't establish law and order in the house and thought that beating kids with "rods" would get them to behave...I bet Dad had a short temper too...lack of parenting skills+short temper+foster kids+not understanding the bible=dead child...