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Article: Alternatives to spanking
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- September 29, 2002
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Alternatives to spanking
Some argue there are better ways to discourage misbehavior
By BARBARA F. MELTZ
Boston Globe
Sunday, September 29, 2002
Researchers have been saying for 50 years that spanking is not a
good way to discipline children; it's painful and humiliating and
leads to resentment and revenge, not remorse or impulse control.
"Suppose there are two medicines that work, but one has harmful
side effects that don't show up for 10 or 20 years. Even if one dose
has only a tiny chance of an adverse effect, I think parents would
want to avoid that risk. That's the way they should think about
spanking," says Murray Straus, founder and co-director of the Family
Research Laboratory at the ...