You've been a very bad boy..
Posted on 07/03/2012 4:56:37 AM PDT by Abathar
Although the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) strongly discourages spanking, at least half of parents admit to physically punishing their children. Some research suggests that as many as 70-90 percent of mothers have resorted to spanking at one time or another. A new study published in the journal Pediatrics may cause parents to think more carefully before laying a hand on their little ones.
Researchers examined data from more than 34,000 adults and found that being spanked significantly increased the risk of developing mental health issues as adults. According to their results, corporal punishment is associated with mood disorders, including depression and anxiety, as well as personality disorders and alcohol and drug abuse. They estimate that as much as 7 percent of adult mental illness may be attributable to childhood physical punishment, including slapping, shoving, grabbing, and hitting. The study reports that spanking ups the risk of major depression by 41 percent, alcohol and drug abuse by 59 percent, and mania by 93 percent, among other findings.
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You've been a very bad boy..
Slapping, shoving, grabbing and hitting anywhere else but the buttocks, are NOT spanking. Such forms of “punishment” are not correction. Instead of correction, they convey to the child parental disrespect. It is born of a parent’s annoyance and is not motived by a loving desire to guide a child.
Even verbal abuse has at it’s core disrespect of the child’s value as a human being.
So this silly study tells us nothing we do not already know. Genuine abuse is harmful, loving correction is not.
These things are not spanking! A pop on their little bottoms to emphasize the danger of running out into the street is NOT shoving and slapping!
This whole article is totally misleading!!
If you go to the original study, they researchers are looking at HARSH punishment. Harsh punishment is operationalized as follows quote from the study):
“The types of child maltreatment that were assessed included physical punishment, physical abuse, emotional abuse, sexual abuse, emotional neglect, physical neglect, and exposure to intimate partner violence (eg, having a battered mother”
The study isn’t looking at the occasional swat on the rump.
I had a psych professor back in the 1970’s who said that spanking is the only way to deal with two year olds as they have not yet developed the ability to reason. Bet he wouldn’t have gotten tenure today.
If spanking causes mental illness, what is the horrendous result of frequent high speed impacts of your old man’s number 12 brogan, into the seat of your pants?
Mybe I’m an exception, but looking back on it, I’ve concluded that it DID ME GOOD!
Shame on you, Bully!
She would definitely cause mental illness.
I gathering that they are trying to lump a swat to the rear with beating a child into the hospital.
That’s said, the modern world does give us more options. When I was a kid, I’d rather be spanked than grounded. Spanking was done and over with, while a grounding lasted “forever.”
Bull feathers! Even a momma bear knows that the cubs need to have their ears boxed when they get into something that threatens their future or immediate well-being.
Funny, I always thought the lazy parents that never bothered to discipline their children always had the children that appeared to be losing their minds and acting out.
“I have three rules:
#1 Never use my hand.
#2 Never spank out of anger.
#3 Always sit down with the child afterwards and explain why it was necessary and that I love them.”
I’m not sure about the hand part. A hand can better judge the amount of force being applied.
The more I look at that, the more it looks like the MIB have had a clip of them quickly removing their glasses reversed. Interesting...
Exactly. I can’t tell you how many times I heard my dad say, “if you don’t stop that, we both will end up in the hospital!” Both of us? I would ask. “yes, to get my foot out of your ass!”
How do you find a link in something that 90% of parents did? Shouldn’t that make mental illness the “norm”? And shouldn’t mental illness be on the decline as spanking goes away and brattiness and self-centeredness increase?
How do you find a link in something that 90% of parents did? Shouldn’t that make mental illness the “norm”? And shouldn’t mental illness be on the decline as spanking goes away and brattiness and self-centeredness increase?
That completely made my day, LOL.
Everybody I know got spanked as kids. We rightly feared the consequences of misbehaving. Kids today know they have nothing to fear from their weenie parents, so they act like beasts. Case in point: recently I was in Target, and a kid in the shopping cart was howling and screaming like something possessed. Not crying, mind you-—howling, to get his way. His numb mother’s reaction was to walk around going, “Sssssh....hush now...ssssh”, with no effect at all.Meanwhile, the rest of us had our eardrums blown out.
What’s a barn hose?
I have to carry water for my goats...
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