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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Gee, it’s almost like there is an agenda behind this “research”. Almost.
Total BS. Spanking is not a beating. And we should spank helluva lot more.
I smell a BS study. A study conducted with an agenda. Conducted and structured to support a predetermined outcome.
I think the psychiatrists are all nuts!
Does this include spanking monkeys?
Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him..-Proverbs 22:15
“I have to call BS on this, I believe the fact we don’t spank as much is a big part of the problem we have now. “
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I agree.
This is just more liberal leftist psychobabble.
I am now in my late 60s, but remember receiving modest
corporal punishment in my early youth.
I think I was far better adjusted then the leftist freakazoids that are running the country today.
I think the reason for America’s demise today is from the
new age nuts who have decided that ANY punishment is child abuse.
Crap. Someone put LSD in my drink again. All those years at a major Pediatric hospital... LSD messes with your head.
So, these folks think personal responsibility and being aware of your actions is a mental illness? I guess if your a liberal that makes sense.
Considering that Freud is one of the unholy trinity of the so-called “school of suspicion” (the others are Karl Marx and Friedrich Nietzsche), psychiatry ought to be rejected as the abomination it is.
I agree, pure BS. Shesh, I got my behind tanned when I deserved it.....I guess I should be in a rubber room suppressed by a straight jacket.
I agree, pure BS. Shesh, I got my behind tanned when I deserved it.....I guess I should be in a rubber room suppressed by a straight jacket.
“I think the psychiatrists are all nuts!”
That’s exactly why I switched my college major. All my classmates were trying to figure out what was wrong with themselves. Hey, I just though a few “Psychology Today” articles were interesting.
38. Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all behavioral problems as psychiatric disorders which no one but psychiatrists can understand [or treat].
39. Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose Communist goals.
Now, couple that with Dr. Benjamin Spock - who, through his book, did much to change how parents discipline their children and how society perceives spanking - with the knowledge that Dr. Spock ran for President in 1972 on the 'People's Party' ticket.
I really wish the Socialists in America would just go to France, the Commies would just go to Cuba and Sean Penn would just go to Hel...er...Venezuela.
I don’t believe it for a minute...Liars...
Barn hose beatings age 6-14 bump. Must be a Utah thing.
Never use the hand to spank a child, use a paddle.
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