> Although spanking is traditionally supposed to teach a lesson to correct bad behavior, children who were spanked were neither more compliant nor better behave

> Although spanking is traditionally supposed to teach a lesson to correct bad behavior, children who were spanked were neither more compliant nor better behaved. This accords with my experience of primary school in the UK in the early 1960s. It was nearly always a specific small subset of the pupils who were punished and they continued to misbehave while those who were generally well behaved anyway but once did something stupid became more careful.