Posted on 01/03/2010 8:43:20 AM PST by Steelfish
Smacked Children More Successful Later In Life, Study Finds
Murray Wardrop 03 Jan 2010
Research suggests children who are smacked when young are more successful later in life A study found that youngsters smacked up to the age of six did better at school and were more optimistic about their lives than those never hit by their parents. They were also more likely to undertake voluntary work and keener to attend university, experts discovered. The research, conducted in the United States, is likely to anger children’s rights campaigners who have unsuccessfully fought to ban smacking in Britain.
Currently, parents are allowed by law to mete out "reasonable chastisement'' on their children, providing smacking does not leave a mark or bruise. These limits were clarified in the 2004 Children’s Act. But children’s groups and MPs have argued that spanking is an outdated form of punishment that can cause long-term mental health problems.
Marjorie Gunnoe, professor of psychology at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan, said her study showed there was insufficient evidence to deny parents the freedom to determine how their children should be punished. She said: “The claims made for not spanking children fail to hold up. They are not consistent with the data.
“I think of spanking as a dangerous tool, but there are times when there is a job big enough for a dangerous tool. You just don’t use it for all your jobs.” The research questioned 179 teenagers about how often they were smacked as children and how old they were when they were last spanked. Their answers were then compared with information they gave about their behaviour that could have been affected by smacking. This included negative effects such as anti-social behaviour, early sexual activity, violence and depression, as well as positives such as academic success..
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Plus it gives funny stories to share with your friends when you’re living on your own.
No surprise there.
Pro 22:15 Foolishness [is] bound in the heart of a child; [but] the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.
Pro 23:13 Withhold not correction from the child: for [if] thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die.
Pro 29:15 The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left [to himself] bringeth his mother to shame.
Smacked? They have an odd way of describing a good ole spanking in the UK. But then in my home I refer to it as “Applying the board of education to his seat of knowledge”
It is not surprising. I know kids from families that have a no spanking rule and in my observation it is the children that rule the household. Many times they are the ones hitting, biting, and “spanking” the parents. It’ll be a cold day in hell before I let a 2 foot tall little monster rule me. It is bad enough we have a society where the most worthless, with the least self control, and the most screwups are lifted up and taken care of like babies. I’ll not have my children become a part of those ranks.
Did your mom ever whip your ass with an extension cord? How about one of those rubber straps with the hook at either end? How about breaking the handle of a coffee cup off by smacking you in the head with the cup?
And I say that as a rambunctious, big mouthed Southern boy, I deserved all of it and more. Women correcting males need to amplify their force, and man, she knew how to do that in spades.
It’s child ABUSE NOT to discipipline a child!
Being agressive is a "behavioural problem"?
Best and most accurate statement yet made about corporal punishment challenged children.
A “smack” is a potch on the tush.
Yes, to the socialists ‘aggressive’ is bad. They are relying on the passive compliance of the sheeple to implement their socialist utopia under the guidance of the anointed one and the 0bamaroids. Aggressive just won’t cut the mustard...
I used to smack my kids once in a while. Now that they’re in their 30s, I say, “I’m sorry I smacked you.” You know what they say? “We deserved it.”
I used to get my fair share of spankings (and probably deserved them) and had a successful career and am now enjoying a great retirement (other then zero being in the WH)....OTOH my two nephews who NEVER got a hand to the backside are both spoiled and immature as hell. One has a great job as a government contractor but is lazy as hell otherwise and irresponsible and he’s 34; the other one works at Target (and as my brother said the other night “boy that English degree did him a lot of good).....and the only time my parents, my brother or I hears from either of them is when they’ve got their hand out....pitiful!
Occasionally, I’ll see a story about a child who is extremely violent and out of control to the point of being expelled from school and brought for counseling by a desperate mother. The descriptions of the child’s behavior are usually horrendous: the kid kicks, bites, throws things, trashes the room where he is, etc.
When I see one of those stories, I wonder about what is going on that is not being included in the story. Has the mother ever disciplined the child? Or is she one of those mothers who sits with her misbehaving child, talking to him about why the behavior is bad, thereby rewarding him with Mom’s undivided attention every time he acts up? Conversely, is she one of those people who becomes uncontrollable herself when the kid does anything, and responds by waling on him for every little transgression? How many of those uncontrollable children received proper discipline, administered according to the situation?
There is clearly a need for more studies.
W. C. Fields is famous for saying....” man should beat his child daily, if he doesn’t know why, the child does “
...my dad took that to heart
DFCS and “Family” lawyers standing by to take your calls ...
I think there’s a happy medium. I still remember the wooden spoon that broke when I spanked my son with it...but of course, I also remember my mother’s hairbrush that broke when she spanked me with it! In neither case were these things it would have been very hard to break, btw. It was more symbolic than anything else, but it made an impression.
Spanking was only for things like playing with fire, trying to do bodily harm to a sibling, etc.
I hate the yuppy flake parenting style where they plead with the child to understand their point of view.
But, oddly enough, I have noticed that the group with the most dysfunctional children, blacks, have very severe parenting styles. Children are never spoken to in a normal voice, always screamed at, and usually hauled across the room and slapped and shaken for good measure. I’m sure these parents think they are doing the best for their children, but that’s not the way to do it.
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