by Georgina Robinson
American pop star Pink has declared that parents should be able to "beat the crap" out of their children.
The 31-year-old told celebrity news site Access Hollywood that political correctness had gone too far and her own father's beatings saved her life.
"I think parents need to beat the crap out of their kids," Pink, whose real name is Alicia Moore, said.
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"I think the whole spanking thing and how it's all gotten PC is just for the birds."
When asked whether her father, a Vietnam veteran, "spanked" her, Pink replied: "Oh he put me through a wall, it's the only reason I'm still here, it's the only reason I'm still alive."
The singer's parents divorced when she was seven-years-old.
By nine, Pink says she was smoking, and in her early teens she was regularly taking the drugs LSD and ecstasy.
Pink says she was thrown out of home at 15.
"I deserved it, I would have kicked me out when I was eight," she said.
"I was not comfortable with authority or rules, I was bad."
The Grammy winner, whose debut album sold five million copies worldwide and included an Australian number one hit, has been critical of younger pop stars.
Her 2006 hit single Stupid Girls parodied the likes of Jessica Simpson, Britney Spears and Paris Hilton, who gained notoriety through high-profile partying and constant run-ins with the law.
"It went from being really funny to really sad," Pink said.
"It went from just partying and maybe hitting a person or two in a car to having a real problem and I don't think that's funny because I've lost a lot of friends."
Pink said she did all the "crashing and burning" early.
"I got that out of the way, and thank God because I didn't have to do what poor Lindsay Lohan is doing or any of the others, where everyone was watching me screw up," she said.
Tiffany Watson's Thought
Paige and Byron are our two children and they are generally good kids, you know why we smack them, take things away and smack them again. If they argue and I don't know who is at fault they both get smacks. I completely agree with Pink. Yes I know there are people out there that are the small minority and they make trouble for everyone else. If I have a child in a supermarket being a right royal pain, I should be able to smack without feeling worried about people accusing me of being a bad mother. Ask anyone who knows my children and they will tell you that they are out there, active, polite children.
I would prefer to smack my children and go to jail, than not smack them and they go to jail later.
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