‘Bachelor’ Star Madi Prewett Reveals Plans To ‘Spank’ Toddler Daughter

“The Bachelor” season 24 star Madison Prewett has been sharing deeply private features of her life over the previous couple of weeks, from what she describes as her wrestle with pornography to turning into a dedicated spouse. Most just lately, on her podcast, “Keep True,” Prewett and her husband, Grant Troutt, revealed the controversial method they plan to self-discipline their daughter, sparking important on-line debate.

Prewett and her husband, who’s a pastor at a Texas church, have revealed they plan to “spank” their toddler daughter, born in January 2025, citing the Bible as their information for the controversial parenting selection.

“We are going to [spank her], on the document, as a result of the Bible clearly says, ‘Folly is sure up in a baby, however self-discipline drives it distant,’” Troutt mentioned on the podcast.

Prewett, 29, added, “It additionally particularly says self-discipline with a rod. … Effectively, some individuals may say, ‘You possibly can self-discipline them with time-outs.’ Maintain on, it says with a rod.”

Because the dialog continued, Prewett clarified that every one future spankings can be completed in “a really loving method.”

“Mommy doesn’t need to self-discipline you, mommy doesn’t get pleasure from having to spank you, however there are penalties to disobedience,” Prewett mentioned she’d inform her daughter. “And that’s what you’re saying is, there are penalties to our sin. There are penalties to disobedience.”

To justify her stance, the “Bachelor” alum drew upon her personal childhood expertise.

“Self-discipline is just not nice. … When my dad spanked me after I was younger, I didn’t get pleasure from it,” she mentioned. “However now I look again, and I’m, like, ‘Reward God, my dad beloved me sufficient to self-discipline me. Reward God that my dad beloved me sufficient to coach me into righteousness.’”

The couple’s stance on spanking their daughter shortly sparked backlash on-line, with many social media customers sharing their disagreement.

“What commandment did I miss?” somebody requested on Instagram.

“I may by no means hit my baby,” another person commented. “How is spanking any totally different than baby abuse?”

One other person shared their expertise with their sons, who’re eight and 11, writing, “We do not smack or hit them; by no means have and by no means will.”

A fourth slammed Prewett and Troutt, posting, “It is really confirmed [that] corporal punishment does not work. There isn’t any ‘suppose’ about it.”

The person acknowledged Prewett’s perception in God however criticized making use of scripture actually to parenting, “However with regards to a baby’s security being affected due to what the Bible is ‘saying,’ it’s worrisome. The bible was written at a time earlier than childhood psychologists existed, and analysis was completed.”

Not too long ago, Prewett opened up about her years-long wrestle with porn and masturb-tion throughout her “Keep True” podcast, which she described as “sexual sin.”

In response to the truth star, her wrestle with porn started when she was 13 after seeing one thing “extraordinarily inappropriate” at her good friend’s home.

“I questioned my price and my id. Each time I gave into sexual sin, I did not know my objective,” she mentioned earlier than explaining that she could not “break away” from the cycle till she instructed different individuals about it.

“Fortunately, by the grace of God and by the ability of Godly group and other people round me, I’ve been free from porn and masturb-tion for — I do not even know — 10 years. However that was one thing that enslaved me and marked me for thus lengthy,” the podcaster revealed.