- 24 Feb 2018 03:52
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Many respected psychological research centres disagree with corporal punishment. My school is forbidden by law from hitting me, but due to the outdated laws in Australia - my parents can (but they don't, and didn't when I was young).
A growing body of research has shown that spanking and other forms of physical discipline can pose serious risks to children, but many parents aren’t hearing the message.http://www.apa.org/monitor/2012/04/spanking.aspx
There have now been hundreds of high-quality spanking research studies with a wide variety of samples and study designs. Over time, the quality of this research has improved to include better spanking measures and more sophisticated research designs and statistical methods.http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/parenting/researchers-say-there-is-no-evidence-spanking-guides-children-but-there-is-plenty-linking-it-to-behavioural-problems/news-story/021c9e8f79ae447751c13fdd21a144ec
The scientific evidence from these studies has consistently shown that spanking is related to harmful outcomes for children.
The more children are spanked, the more likely they are to defy their parents and to experience increased anti-social behavior, aggression, mental health problems and cognitive difficulties, according to a new meta-analysis of 50 years of research on spanking by experts at The University of Texas at Austin and the University of Michigan.https://news.utexas.edu/2016/04/25/risks-of-harm-from-spanking-confirmed-by-researchers
The study, published in this month’s Journal of Family Psychology, looks at five decades of research involving over 160,000 children. The researchers say it is the most complete analysis to date of the outcomes associated with spanking, and more specific to the effects of spanking alone than previous papers, which included other types of physical punishment in their analyses.
In terms of whether parental aggression (spanking) decreases aggression in the child, the answer is no. In fact, spanking tends to increase child aggression: “Spanking predicted increases in children’s aggression over and above initial levels [of aggressive behavior]” and “in none of these longitudinal studies did spanking predict reductions in children’s aggression over time” (p. 134). Instead, spanking predicted increases in children’s aggression.https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/moral-landscapes/201309/research-spanking-it-s-bad-all-kids
Spanking erodes developmental growth in children and decreases a child's IQ, a recent Canadian study (link is external) shows.https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-me-in-we/201202/how-spanking-harms-the-brain
This analysis, conducted at the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario in Ottawa, offers new evidence that corporal punishment causes cognitive impairment and long-term developmental difficulties.
Research provides a wealth of information about the less immediate effects of corporal punishment. Among many other things, we know that corporally punishing a child is more likely to result in mental health problems in the future; that child is more likely to become aggressive, have impaired cognitive development and a negative relationship with his or her parents.http://www.smh.com.au/comment/the-long-term-impact-of-corporal-punishment-20150505-ggurdb.html
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