He pointed out that the researchers did not measure the children's behavior before corporal punishment occurred.
Oop, perhaps, the children who received the worst punishment were those who were the worst behaved in the first place?
The more I read into the article, no more I realized it was a garbage study.
And note, I am NOT one who believes in beating kids, I have never even spanked mine. On that subject, I am fairly "liberal", but even so, this study is crap.
Most studies are crap but they’re entertaining. And again, there is a big difference between a spanking and a beating.
They need to study how children are treated by parents in other areas besides corporal punishment. I bet the parents who “beat” their kids aren’t very responsible parents in a lot of other ways as well.
I work with a woman (I won’t mention race) and she has two elementary age kids, boy and girl. Two different daddies. She picks them up from school and brings them into work for a little while every day. One day her daughter, maybe 7 years old, was trying to read a book. She was having difficulty and her mother said “you’re dumb as hell, you can’t even read”. I think that is much more damaging than a spanking.