It is, of course, up to the parent to decide how best to discipline their child, within reason. But I, for one, will be doing my very best not to spank.
You probably don’t like to admit it, but like 94% of us, you’ve probably spanked your child in the past year. While those numbers apply only to parents of 3- and 4-year-olds, a 2014 survey asking people if a child sometimes needed a “good hard spanking” found that 76% of men and 65% of women agreed. Both figures have declined since 1986 when 84% of men and 82% of women agreed with the statement, but the numbers are still startling.
brought together five decades of research, involving 160,000 children, and found that spanking is bad for kids. Scientists are calling it the “most complete analysis to date of the outcomes associated with spanking.” What’s more, according to researchers at the University of Austin, Texas and the University of Michigan, “The more children are spanked, the more likely they are to defy their parents and to experience increased anti-social behavior, aggression, mental health problems and cognitive difficulties.” Wowza.
We’ve heard these claims from studies before, and most of them fall short in some way. For instance, many didn’t separate spanking from abusive behavior. Butthis study is different because it focuses on what most Americans consider spanking — which researchers defined as “an open-handed hit on the behind or extremities” — and not on potentially abusive behaviors.
The study has generated a lot of buzz because it’s so large and also because it’s legit, and the results are not encouraging. In the short-term, Gershoff says, “We found that spanking…was not associated with more immediate or long-term compliance, which are parents’ intended outcomes when they discipline their children.
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