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Considering the the huge amount of delinquent videos posted, you'd think that every child needs to be raised with a strong hand.
However, research seems to prove otherwise.
Source: http://web5.cns.utexas.ed...2011/03/to-spank-or-not/
[h4]Is spanking still a common practice in the U.S.?[/h4]
[h4]Can you sum up what research has to tell us about the effects of spanking on children?[/h4]
[h4]So spanking isn’t good, even when it’s pretty rare.[/h4]
[h4]Is there a relationship between spanking and physical abuse? Are parents who spank more likely to escalate that to something more abusive?[/h4]
However, research seems to prove otherwise.
Source: http://web5.cns.utexas.ed...2011/03/to-spank-or-not/
[h4]Is spanking still a common practice in the U.S.?[/h4]
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Elizabeth Gershoff: Most parents still spank, but they do it a lot less frequently than their parents did. Most parents who do spank do it once a month or less, maybe only a couple of times a year. So the prevalence of spanking is still very high (i.e., most parents do it) but the incidence is not (i.e., they don’t do it very often).That said, it is still the case that the vast majority of children in the U.S. are spanked by their parents at some point. By the time American children reach middle and high school, eighty-five percent have been physically punished, either with a spanking or something harsher
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There’s been a lot of research on spanking, going back all the way to the early 1900s, and almost all of it has showed that spanking is associated with negative outcomes for children. It is associated with more aggressive and anti-social behaviors in children. The more frequently or severely children are spanked or hit, the more likely they are to have symptoms of depression or anxiety, both at the time they’re punished and later. There is evidence to suggest that it erodes the connection between children and their parents, making children less likely to trust their parents. There’s even evidence that it is linked with lower child IQ scores.Several years ago, I published a research meta-analysis, which statistically summarized the outcomes associated with spanking across 89 studies. I found that the only positive outcome linked with corporal punishment was immediate compliance. The more children were spanked, the more they complied in that moment. Over the long term, however, and when their parents weren’t there, spanking did not increase compliance. Even just two weeks later, it didn’t seem to make a difference.
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Right. It doesn’t increase the likelihood of outcomes parents want, but does increase the chance of ones they don’t.
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Yes, absolutely. There’s a very strong relationship between whether and how often parents spank their children and whether or not parents at some point physically abuse their children. There have been several studies on this issue, and they nearly all find that a majority of incidents of abuse—sixty, seventy, eighty percent—begin as some form of physical punishment.Most physical abuse, in other words, isn’t inflicted by sadistic parents who are indiscriminately abusing their children. Rather, most abuse begins with a parent wanting to “teach the child a lesson
