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Article: Spanking does more harm than good
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- June 27, 2002
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Spanking does more harm than good, study says
By SHANKAR VEDANTAM Washington Post
Thursday, June 27, 2002
Spanking children can make them temporarily more compliant but
causes more problems than it cures by raising the risk that children
will become aggressive, anti-social 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 ...