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Aeriis posted...

I picked an article for you that I think is easy to understand: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3447048/

if you would like anymore or need any help, lmk :3

@Aeriis

I am going to be honest. I hate reading things like this, because they never get to the point. I dislike academic reading.

But I have attempted to reread this a few times, and Im not convinced about some things.

1) This seems to combine a plethora of individual studies together to try and make a point. That means there is no singular experiment that is being conducted, and I cannot even verify my question about how theyre going about doing it.

2) A lot of the studies this link references are obvious things. Such as Child abusers are more likely to spank their children than not spank them. Or how Infants less than a years old who were spanked the month before are 2.3 times more likely to suffer an injury. Who tf is spanking newborns?

3) A few of the studies imply spanking have no correlation with negative outcomes in the toddler to young child age group. Which should be obvious. That is the age group that would most likely be spanked AFTER other forms of discipline do not work. Teenagers, however, are able to be talked to much more, so parents who are still relying on physical punishment at this stage are more likely to be causing harm due to incompetence.

4) I still dont see what defines as spanking in any of the studies. At least one study outright says spanking or slapping which is vague. A lot of them just say corporal punishment which isnt specific either.

Do you have a singular study that shows your views better? Not a study that is just a conglomeration?

Obviously, when going to the references, I only read the summarized info. These are extremely long articles and since you apparently went to school, surely you have one available so I can not read incorrectly.

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