Corporal punishment against children is a practice that is part of the culture, religions, history and organization of many Western societies; hitting children has represented, still in late modernity, a prerogative of parents. Only recently has corporal punishment begun to be perceived as a category of violence, in accordance with the legislative framework on parenting and, therefore, in some countries it has been banned. Italy is an interesting case of misalignment in its legal culture because corporal punishment continues to be lawful referring to the Article 571 of the Italian Criminal Code, which only prohibits the abuse of means of correction and discipline while, simultaneously, parenting and parental responsibility have been introduced. Indeed, in this misalignment, the boundary between invisible and ordinary violence against children remains unresolved.