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All spanking is child abuse. Full stop. From what you've described, there is zero reason to believe that the spankings your peers in the strict Muslim and Chri
by eridius 8y ago
All spanking is child abuse. Full stop.
From what you've described, there is zero reason to believe that the spankings your peers in the strict Muslim and Christian homes was a factor in their later success.
- xupybd 8y ago>All spanking is child abuse I hope you understand the distinction I was trying to make. I’d have expected a correlation to show up.
- c22 8y agoDo you think when Christian or Muslim parents are spanking their children that they are not angry?
- xupybd 8y agoI’m not assuming they are good at it but my understanding of traditional Christian doctrine is that it should never be done in anger. I’m not sure about the Muslim teaching on it but thought Jewish, Muslim and Christian teaching on this was similar.
- eridius 8y agoThere's a hell of a lot more different between the families you described then whether they used spanking.
- Viker 8y agoI have to disagree with you here and agree with the person above you. There is a major and distinct difference between using negative reinforce and child abuse. Also the study concludes that countries where spanking is bad results into adults getting in less physical confrontations. But do they chose that based on better solutions or does it mean a population afraid of serious confrontations.
- pawelmurias 8y agoOne could hypothesise that being moderately abused makes you more subservient which could help in being (moderately) successful.
- xupybd 8y agoYes, something need not have a net positive effect to yield correlations to some positives. It’s seems very strange to me that they could detect zero such correlations.
- mrkstu 8y agoI have 6 kids, some got spanked others not at all. But when you have a 3 yr old who isn't listening and may put themselves in danger with their actions, sometimes a quick attention getting spank can save a life or at least a hospital visit. Trying to place a black/white filter on something like this is intellectually vacuous.