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http://www.khou.com/news/nation-world/spanking-your-kids-could-have-negative-affects-later-in-life-study-claims/462767141

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"Spanking your kids could have negative effects later in life, study claims

ATLANTA -- Most, if not all, parents have a way of disciplining their children. Time-outs, groundings, maybe taking away their smart phone or tablets?

Maybe even a spanking?

As a parent, does physical punishment seem like the best form of discipline? A study that was published in the Journal of Family Psychology back in 2016 says it may have negative effects on a child’s overall behavior as they grow older.

The study looks at five decades of research that involved over 160,000 children. It revealed that the children who are spanked are more likely to have increased anti-social behavior, aggression, mental health problems, cognitive difficulties and are more likely to defy their parents.

“The upshot of the study is that spanking increases the likelihood of a wide variety of undesired outcomes for children. Spanking thus does the opposite of what parents usually want to do,” said Grogan-Kaylor, an associate professor at the University of Michigan School of Social Work and who worked on the study.

“Our analysis focuses on what most Americans would recognize as spanking and not on potentially abusive behaviors,” said Elizabeth Gershoff of the University of Texas at Austin.

So, basically, the study shows that it does not improve morals or behavior and it does not make children more successful.

Now, this research was not done on your particular family, so of course, the effects are probably not the same as your own personal experience.

Most parents support their own personal right to spank their children and most courts support and uphold a parent’s right to spank their child.

However, Gershoff’s team writes, “Positive reinforcement for alternative behaviors is extremely effective. We hope that our study can help educate parents about the potential harms of spanking and prompt them to try positive and non-punitive forms of discipline.”"

Yes but spanking me is a good idea.
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Of course. It's ok to hit kids but not adults, we're obviously more vulnerable than them
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Correlation doesn't equal causation, I'm neither for nor against spanking but it also lends to reason that children who would otherwise regardless grow up to have a conduct disorder or oppositional defiance disorder, antisocial personality, etc are more likely to have been disciplined more often and or spanked more often given severity of their poor behavior.

I have plenty of parents who have never spanked their kids and still have children with conduct disorders, etc; with changes in parenting techniques, i guess we will see whether or not we actually see true decreases in incidence of above diseases, but anecdotally, I think incidence rates will remain about the same.
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Vyrulisse posted...

Yes but spanking me is a good idea.

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My parents spanking me was the reason im not cursing them out
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Yes and it's illegal in Sweden as well.
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All people ive known that were spanked are resentful now as adults and its clearly hurt their relationship now.
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Yes
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Here's the thing. You can't pin it down to exactly one thing that is different because not all families are the same. If you have a poor family where one of the parents does drugs it probably is going to have more negative effects than an average family where there isn't anyone doing drugs / alcohol. Also not all kids respond the same way to punishment.
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Wort case scenario it fucks up the kid

Best case scenario it doesn't do anything either way

In this day and age, spanking for discipline is a horrible. I believe whoever does this still should be put in prison.

It may have worked in the 80s and 90s, but we're past that age.

depends on the kid. spanking should just be while they're young. shouldn't be spanking a teenager. then it depends on how rebellious they are. some kids you can ground them or whatever and they don't care. others are more sensitive and you can just say you're disappointed in them and they'll start crying.

Yes. use a belt. It's less straining on ur hand
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If your wife did something bad without knowing better would you smack her with the intention of causing pain? No? Then don't hit a child
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If my dad taught me anything, it's a belt will teach you a firmer lesson.
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WizardPowers posted...

If your wife did something bad without knowing better would you smack her with the intention of causing pain? No? Then don't hit a child

I agree.