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Article: UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA STUDY SHOWS LINK BETWEEN SPANKING AND PHYSICAL ABUSE
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- Article date:
- August 19, 2008
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The University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill issued the following press release:
Spanking has been, and still is, a common method of child discipline used by American parents.
But mothers who report that they or their partner spanked their child in the past year are nearly three times more likely to state that they also used harsher forms of punishment than those who say their child was not spanked, according to a new study led by the Injury Prevention Research Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Such punishments included behaviors considered physically abusive by the researchers, such as beating, burning, kicking, hitting with an object somewhere other than the ...
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