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Article: SPANKING'S A COMMON OCCURRENCE.(LIFE & LEISURE)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- May 18, 1995
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Byline: BARBARA F. MELTZ The Boston Globe
A woman I met recently was incredulous that I never spank my son. " I thought everyone spanked their kids," she said.
Unfortunately, she's pretty close to the truth. Here are some facts about spanking, culled from several recent national surveys of parents: 68 percent of American parents think spanking is not only good but essential to child rearing;
90 percent of parents spank their toddlers at least three times a week; two-thirds spank them once a day;
One in four parents begin to spank when their child is 6 months old, 50 percent when their child is 12 months old;
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