"Darla was a prude and dumped me for Alfalfa"
-These psychologists and shrinks don't distinguish between beating your kid in anger and lovingly disciplining him (with spanks of medium force, and without parental rage). I would guess most parents mostly do the latter. Those who do the former, we would agree, are bound to have a psychopath on their hands when their kid grows up. I'm sure if you could divide the spankers into these two groups, you would easily see that the careful spankers get much BETTER results than the non-spankers. And the "flying into a rage" beaters get the worst results of the lot.
-The whole idea of measuring social phenomena with "scientific" studies is a bit ludicrous. The BEST they can do is suggest a link. They don't prove a link. Do the authors of these studies not understand the difference between causation and correlation? Maybe the 10% of people who never spank have (supposedly) better kids because they are richer, or better educated--and turn out better kids due to these factors. Maybe their kids would turn out even better if they did spank them occasionally for willful disobedience, or some of the spanked kids would have turned out even worse if they had not been spanked.
Sheesh! We know the non-spanking secularists want to take our kids away from us or throw us in jail for spanking them. Can't we just throw them in jail for professional malpractice instead for foisting bogus articles like this on the public??
Have at it!! Guitarist.
Total BS article.
If there was a genetic disposition to bad behavior, wouldn’t you expect that to manifest at a young age, and that those children would be spanked more because they did more bad things?
If 90% of americans spank, doesn’t that mean a study in the United States wouldn’t be that helpful?
How do they verify the information? Do they just ask the criminals whether they were spanked, and the nice people if they were spanked? Maybe the nice people don’t remember being spanked, and the criminals are looking for somthing to blame for their evil ways?
I do think that a lot of parents spank “wrong”, and send the message that physical response is appropriate when a person isn’t doing what you want them to do. That message, reinforced over the years, would tend to lead to adults who would use physical force to make people do what they want.
But that doesn’t mean spanking itself was bad, just that there were bad parents.
I wish my wife would have gotten spanked more as a child :-)
I think there’s causation here, but as is typical with liberal excuse-making for deviant behavior, they’ve reversed cause and effect. (It’s the typical big lie technique - say something so shocking and unintuitive that it *has* to be true, even though it is not only untrue - it remains patently absurd on its face). The fact is that children who misbehave are more likely to be spanked. Spanking doesn’t lead to misbehavior - misbehavior leads to spanking. Prisons don’t lead to the existence of criminality - criminality leads to the existence of prisons.
So most of those kids enter adulthood associating spanking with love?
It means one study was published that shows (fill in blank here) and that all. It does NOT mean "Spanking Raises Chances of Risky, Deviant Sexual Behavior."
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