You know whats worse than spanking? Letting kids have access to dangerous things like drugs. Parents allowing their kids to hang out with the wrong crowd is worse than spanking. Ofcourse everybody is free but with freedom comes responsibility.
It is unwise to publish a phone number you meant to protect in an open forum where any data harvester and scammer can find it. The magic phrase for sales callers is not "remove me from your list", but ''Add this number to your Do Not Call list''.