My mother was physically abused by her father and stepmother growing up so she was very careful with me. I did get spanked on occasion, and slapped across the face by my father when I mouthed off (it happened once as an adult and I swore to myself that if it ever happened again I would call the cops).
But in the Hall I grew up in--to this day I can still hear the crying and screaming coming from the bathrooms. My friend and her siblings would get hit if they didn't comment at the meetings (surprise, surprise they all left the "truth" the moment they turned 18). And when I was a teenager I heard my mother make a comment about one family where it was obvious that they beat their kids, that if they hadn't been Witnesses someone would probably have called child services on them. But since they were Witnesses, no one wanted to bring "reproach on Jehovah's name".