Spanking Statistics

[Benny]

Saw this on facebook.

In one handy article

http://www.upworthy.com/the-science-of-s...-up?c=ufb2

[DarkRiver]

An interesting post, thanks for sharing it. I'll have to take a little time and read through it. Though a quick scan does show an interesting map of what US states allow/disallow spanking.

[Sarah]

it seems like its a big antispanking ad. im sorry but i've never been abused and i think i have a better relationship with my parents than most girls my age. so maybe if more kids got spanked the RIGHT way, more kids would behave and more parents would do it?

wow I cant beleve I just said that! lol

[Garth]

Couldn't agree with you more Sarah.

[Michael J]

it seems like its a big antispanking ad. im sorry but i've never been abused and i think i have a better relationship with my parents than most girls my age. so maybe if more kids got spanked the RIGHT way, more kids would behave and more parents would do it?

Exactly. Those are my thoughts on it too Sarah. I think spanking can be a good thing (although us kids hate to admit it)

[DadMax987]

This got me thinking, never a good sign, but remember the peace movement from the 60's through the 70's that started form the ban the bomb movement of the late 50's? You know all the make love and not war? All the people say "just get together and love somebody right now"? No you most likely don't remember that because just about everyone of the people in those movements were spanked as kids in the 40's, 50's, and 60's. Their moms and dads and teachers spanked and paddled them so they all grew up angry and violent and most of them are still in jail because of all the violent crimes they committed so they could never had started a peace movement that ended a war, yea that's it the Vietnam War is still going on right?

Yea I remember that most of the kids I knew that were flower children and just wanted to get along all were spanked at sometime growing up. Why isn't my generation ever part of one of these "studies"?

Just saying.

[Rebecca]

That's a great attitude Sarah. Don't worry we won't tell your parents you said that!

[DarkRiver]

The anti-spanking movement isn't above fudging facts to promote their agenda. I know in Canada there was a move by some Senators to introduce a law to ban spanking after our Top Court ruled that spanking (within reason) was legal.

I think if more children had a positive attiude like Sarah displayed things would be a lot better.

[Michael]

This presentation of statistics is nothing more than anti-spanking propaganda. As has been said, these types of "studies" are typically designed to result in support of a preplanned outcome. Reasonable spanking is almost always thrown into a mix of other assaults on children including beatings, closed fist punches, and abusive punishments which result in severe bruising or even the drawing of blood.

I find it so ironic that these same studies that insist that kids who are spanked grow up to have lower IQ's and are also more prone to violence. If that were true, how is it that the generations who came before mine (who were almost universally spanked as children) grew up to send men to the moon, develop countless scientific breakthroughs, build corporate empires, and make quantum leaps in technology? How is it that with every new generation that comes along (mine included), academic progress seems to decrease, while violence and crime is on a steady climb?

These common sense facts are simply ignored by the very vocal minority. But common sense often seems to have no place in the interpretations of "studies" and statistics.

Thanks for sharing your find with us, Benny!