Do you really think these studies are "well-controlled"? If the studies showed the opposite result, would your opinion be different? > Answer me this: is there

Do you really think these studies are "well-controlled"? If the studies showed the opposite result, would your opinion be different? > Answer me this: is there any type of evidence you would accept? If you were to design a study to determine whether corporal punishment is helpful or harmful, what method would you use? How big would the study have to be? How strong of a correlation would you need to see to believe it? If some mad scientist does an interventional study I would take that seriously. Can't happen, of course. I'm not "in favor of corporeal punishment". I just don't accept the evidence that it's bad. I don't think questions like this are answerable with observational studies. Like my original post said, my view is that parents are inevitably going to experiment on their kids and that's the way it should be. There's a line somewhere, but spanking isn't over it.