Since you're very busy replying to my posts with non-citations, let's go through some of additional ones, most of which cite the study by ET Gershoff. https://

Since you're very busy replying to my posts with non-citations, let's go through some of additional ones, most of which cite the study by ET Gershoff. https://www.gse.harvard.edu/news/uk/21/04/effect-spanking-brain https://www.gse.harvard.edu/news/uk/21/04/effect-spanking-br... - This study determines that spanking (as well as other stimuli, like observed violence) may influence behavior negatively. This is used as justification to determine that spanking is detrimental. The study does not expand this to corporal punishment overall, state sponsored or otherwise. https://sites01.lsu.edu/faculty/pfricklab/wp-content/uploads/sites/100/2015/11/JADP2006-corporal-punishment.pdf https://sites01.lsu.edu/faculty/pfricklab/wp-content/uploads... - This had 98 subjects recruited from two school systems in the southeastern United States. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3447048/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3447048/ - This is basically a narrative summary of some existing studies, leaning heavily on - * https://www.repeal43.org/docs/CP%20research%20US%20Nov%2012.pdf https://www.repeal43.org/docs/CP%20research%20US%20Nov%2012.... * https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5094178/pdf/nihms825783.pdf https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5094178/pdf/nih... * https://www.researchgate.net/publication/261705604_The_effect_of_corporal_punishment_on_antisocial_behavior_in_children https://www.researchgate.net/publication/261705604_The_effec... Getting access to papers directly is often troublesome, so there may be an additional step of clicking on a link to get the PDF. 2/3 of these papers focus on effects of pre-school corporal punishment (ages 2-6) exclusively, which is hard to correlate to the topic but provides solid evidence that corporal punishment (without qualification) for infants correlates to behavioral problems. I would not agree that there is consensus nor is there conclusive data in regard to corporal punishment in schools (post-preschool). This is not an issue of convenience, but has large social implications. If you could provide something a bit more compelling, I'm open to it. I don't have a vested interest, other than a higher standard of proof, such that I can defend conclusive evidence.