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From the abstract at that link: "The results indicated that effect sizes significantly favored conditional spanking over 10 of 13 alternative disciplinary tact
by NLips 8y ago
From the abstract at that link:
"The results indicated that effect sizes significantly favored conditional spanking over 10 of 13 alternative disciplinary tactics for reducing child noncompliance or antisocial behavior. Customary physical punishment yielded effect sizes equal to alternative tactics, except for one large study favoring physical punishment. Only overly severe or predominant use of physical punishment compared unfavorably with alternative disciplinary tactics."
In short:
conditional spanking - more effective that 10/13 other disciplining methods
customary spanking - no more or less effective than other disciplining methods
severe / predominant use of spanking - worse than other methods
The rest of the material available without access to the full paper just seems to back the assertion that data is poor on this topic, and there are methodological issues that make it hard to assess different levels of physical punishment seperately.
- weeksie 8y agoMy bad. I usually try not to do _exactly the thing I did_, rage-pasting a link without reading it fully. I'm not going to get into a deep back and forth over this, but nothing I am aware of shows spanking of any sort has good long term effects on behavior and pretty much every piece of literature out there points to corporal punishment being effective for getting a kid to cease acting out, but either ineffective or worse for long term behavior changes. And sure, maybe being super calm and measured with your application of corporal punishment will prevent it from doing damage. Just seems like a strange path to take when there are effective ones out there that don't require violence or the threat of violence against children.
- major505 8y agoMy mom and dad use to hit me in the bottons witha flip flop as a last resort. Usually the first measure would she put me staring the wall for a few minutes. To a children that was horrible since I was really bored with the punishment. In more than one occasion she forget that I was in the "thinking corner" and found me sleeping on my feed, suported by my face in the wall.