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Article: Study: Harm Outweighs Benefits of Spanking
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- June 26, 2002
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Spanking children can make them temporarily more compliant but
causes more problems than it cures by raising the risk that children
will become aggressive, antisocial and chronically defiant, according
to new research.
The discipline technique is also associated with delinquency, a
failure to learn right from wrong, and an increased risk that the
spanking might turn into child abuse, according to the author of one
of the most comprehensive examinations of the subject.
"The bottom line is that corporal punishment is associated with
numerous risks for children," said Elizabeth Gershoff, a researcher
at Columbia University's National Center for Children in Poverty. "I