Study: Spanking children leads to worse behavior
Spanking is not a way to get a child to behave.
Click here for reuse options!Spanking was not linked with better child behavior. Instead, we found spanking was linked with worse child behavior. Spanking was associated with 13 of the 17 outcomes we examined, and all showed spanking was linked with detrimental outcomes.
The more children were spanked, the more aggressive and antisocial they were. We also found that children who were spanked were more likely to have mental health problems, problematic relationships with their parents and lower cognitive ability.
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cathyx May 15th, 2016 at 09:37
If you want to teach your children to not hit others, then don’t spank them to teach them that. Your hypocrisy will teach them otherwise.
If want to teach people that killing is wrong, then you don’t execute them to teach them that. Your hypocrisy will teach them otherwise.
Lyndia May 16th, 2016 at 03:07
How parents want to raise their child is their own business. I don’t support abuse, but I do believe in spanking. It teaches right from wrong and that there is consequences for inappropriate behavior. I would rather spank my kid, than to have them shot down in broad daylight, by some trigger happy cop.
Carla Akins May 16th, 2016 at 04:23
There are many, many more effective means of teaching a child respect and discipline without resorting to that lazy and ineffective method od striking a child. The “because that’s the way it’s been done”, or the “it was good enough for me” argument has no merit or validity. Striking a child only teaches them that if you’re bigger, you get to rule by force.
fahvel May 15th, 2016 at 12:04
trumps folks must have beaten the living sh!t out of him on a daily basis.
Tommie May 15th, 2016 at 12:11
Results will vary, growing up in a Black and religious household, I got my a$$ whipped but it made me a better person but I never spanked my girls and they turned out great!
cathyx May 15th, 2016 at 15:39
How do you know it made you a better person? You have nothing to compare it to.
Tommie May 15th, 2016 at 15:48
Because I am not out committing crimes, I work hard and take care of my kids!
cathyx May 15th, 2016 at 15:55
Sorry, I’m not trying to create an argument over your upbringing, but all I’m saying is that you probably would have turned out that way anyway because you’re a good person.
Tommie May 15th, 2016 at 16:22
I understand and thanks, living in St. Louis before coming to San Diego, as a child I was starting to hang with the wrong people and my mom (rest her soul) did the right thing in keeping me away from them!
Granite Skyline May 15th, 2016 at 14:25
It’s the perfect vicious cycle for authoritarian egomaniacal parents!
*cough, cough/Ted Cruz/cough*
The more they spank their kids the worse the kids behave — so they can spank them even more! Yippee!
bpollen May 15th, 2016 at 23:42
I always felt that if I resorted to spanking, it was an admission that I was failing as a parent. If I have to beat them to teach them to be civilized humans, my teaching skills suck!