WTFever. I got a few spankings as a kid (even with a belt a few times) and I have no doubt that my parents loved me and did their best to raise good kids.
It works, no doubt, and parents who do it usually do it out of love.
However, research suggests that using corporal punishment leaves your children less able to form meaningful relationships, more likely to suffer from depression and substance abuse problems and more likely to be both a perpetrator and victim of violent crime.
It worked on me, but not my sister. So no, it is not a panacea. I feel that it is up to parents to know their kids well enough to understand what methods of discipline work best for each child- corporal punishment or otherwise.
EDIT: take this with a grain of salt. I do not have children, and honestly if I did I couldn't bring myself to spank them.
As for the research you mention: I would be interested to compare rates of the above today with those of fifty years ago when spankings were much more common. If the research is valid, one would expect to see some statistically significant decrease in the above, however small, between 2013 and 1963.
That's assuming there's no other influences. I'm sure someone could design a study that accounted for that, it seems mighty difficult though and I haven't seen it.
The simple fact is the world is massively different than it was 50 years ago, we just weren't built to be 24/7 always on information consumers. There's good theories around that many increases in mental illness have to do with living in a more anxiety inducing world. There's also the fact that in the 60s we knew close to sweet fuck all about mental illness compared with today. I mean, we still have doctors today putting anxiety disorders down to female hysteria.
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Date: 2013-06-14 07:43 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-06-14 11:50 pm (UTC)a belt, to me, is totally different.
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Date: 2013-06-15 04:24 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-06-15 05:25 am (UTC)However, research suggests that using corporal punishment leaves your children less able to form meaningful relationships, more likely to suffer from depression and substance abuse problems and more likely to be both a perpetrator and victim of violent crime.
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Date: 2013-06-15 05:44 pm (UTC)EDIT: take this with a grain of salt. I do not have children, and honestly if I did I couldn't bring myself to spank them.
As for the research you mention: I would be interested to compare rates of the above today with those of fifty years ago when spankings were much more common. If the research is valid, one would expect to see some statistically significant decrease in the above, however small, between 2013 and 1963.
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Date: 2013-06-15 11:55 pm (UTC)The simple fact is the world is massively different than it was 50 years ago, we just weren't built to be 24/7 always on information consumers. There's good theories around that many increases in mental illness have to do with living in a more anxiety inducing world. There's also the fact that in the 60s we knew close to sweet fuck all about mental illness compared with today. I mean, we still have doctors today putting anxiety disorders down to female hysteria.