Mothers Who Spank More Likely to Have Aggressive Tots, Study Finds

[cali]

Corporal Punishment Continues to Be Pervasive in U.S. -- With Detrimental Results


Spanking toddlers makes for more aggressive kindergartners, according to a new study from Tulane University in New Orleans.
Research finds spanking has long-term negative effects on children's behavior.

While organizations like the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Center for Effective Discipline staunchly advocate against corporal punishment, many parents continue to turn to the rod when disciplining their children.

In a 2005 online poll, 72 percent of adults reported that it was "OK to spank a child." Various studies in recent years found the prevalence of corporal punishment varied widely, from 35 percent of parents to 90 percent, authors of the Tulane study note.

In the new study, published Monday in the journal Pediatrics, researchers found that of 2,500 mothers surveyed across the country, 46 percent reported no spanking in the last month, 28 percent said they spanked one to two times, and 26 percent reported spanking more than twice.

Three-year-old children of mothers who used spanking more frequently were significantly more
likely to have aggressive kids later on down the road, the Tulane researchers found.

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http://abcnews.go.com/Health/Wellness/study-moms-spank-make-aggressive-kids/story?id=10332882

[cliffordu]

1. Hence, Cliffordu.

Fuck me, mom could throw a right.

[LynzM]

2. Sad, but not surprising.

When you teach children that hitting is ok (by hitting them), and that physical correction is the best form of discipline, of course they are going to learn that. :(

[Echo In Light]

3. Yes...violence begets violence

[onehandle]

4. What about fathers?

My dad was the spanker in our house.

[NNN0LHI]

5. My mother was the enforcer in mine

[Rabrrrrrr]

6. It takes an evolved mind to break the cycle of violence

sadly, it seems so many of the ape-like child-hitters are of the mindset "My parents did this to me, so I'm gonna do it to my kids" as a way of making them look better, because, in their tiny minds, if they were spanked and they decide NOT to spank their children, then that means that they were raised poorly and therefore it's, I don't know, shameful or something.

It's like hitting their kids is the validation they need to keep up the fiction that they were raised properly.

The evolved mind, of course, is able to say "What happened to me was wrong, but it's wrongness does not invalidate my entire identity; therefore, I will not do it to others."

[Oregone]

8. An 'evolved mind' would know Al-Children would nuke their parents if they could.

[Rabrrrrrr]

9. Al-Children?

Not sure what that is.

Like Al-Qaeda?

[seabeyond]

13. or all, or alcholic ??? nt

[Oregone]

21. Precisely

And its better to fight en when they are younger, so we don't have to fight em when they are older

Oddly Referencing: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x4339942

[Oregone]

7. Well, that is why they spank em after all

:)

[redqueen]

23. Oh I take it the smiley means you're kidding.

The study obviously controlled for those kinds of things. :)

[Oregone]

29. Im not sure actually

Im never sure with me lately

[Hannah Bell]

10. yes, that must be why bush & cheney killed a million in iraq, because their nannies spanked them.

there is no violence comparable to the violence from the "enlightened" top of the pyramid.

[seabeyond]

12. i dont know, bush's father using to shoot brother and him with BB gun as target

practice

[Hannah Bell]

19. bush sr also helped kill hundreds of thousands, & his father before him.

i bet it was because they were all spanked.

[cali]

17. wow that's a splendid non-sequitur

not everything is related to the elite being evil. And this has jackshit to do with bush or cheney, sweetie.

[Hannah Bell]

20. find a better dictionary, cali, yours is broken.

[Rabrrrrrr]

25. I don't get it - neither the article or the OP offered any hypothesis on Bush or Cheney.

Not sure why you would draw such an accusatory conclusion from the data given.

:shrug:

[seabeyond]

11. *sigh*... i thought it is biological, evolutionary behavior, beyond control??? not nurtured. nt

[Lil Missy]

14. No shit.

:eyes:

[alcibiades_mystery]

15. In this day and age, people still HIT their kids.

Amazing to me. Just amazing.

:wow:

[TexasObserver]

16. Because it teaches them to hit to impose their will on weaker persons.

Same for screaming at kids. If you're screaming, you've already lost.

If you love them, treat them with respect, demand that they treat you with respect, and use all the tools available to parents which don't include hitting and screaming. Parents who hit and scream produce kids who hit and scream.

[NNN0LHI]

18. Same thing with pets

I have watched in horror as some seemingly normal and intelligent people got an adorable and smart puppy and the people used the exact same unsuccessful training methods that they seen their parents use on their dogs when they were kids.

Mostly hitting and screaming.

I don't understand it either.

Don

[TexasObserver]

24. Yes. Don't get me started on mistreatment of pets.

The sad truth is that MOST people who own a pet don't have enough sense to own a pet. They think hitting a pet teaches them. It doesn't. It teaches them not to trust you. Animal training requires a bond of trust. And they don't trust people who hit them.

[redqueen]

22. I don't understand how this isn't obvious.

But it's nice to finally have some hard data for physicians to use when telling parents why hitting your kids is a bad idea. (But again... really? This needs explaining? *sigh*)

[Johonny]

33. it doesn't sound obvious

Most of the article is speculation to cause. Meaning it's very uncertain why it becomes less effective and why the kids become more aggressive than non-spanked kids.

[redqueen]

34. Yeah, um... ok.

Just gonna kick this.

[surrealAmerican]

26. It's not the first study to show this link ...

... and it won't be the last. Spanking sets a bad example for children, which they will emulate.

[BurtWorm]

27. Spare the rod, spoil spoiling other children's kindergarten experience.

[AngryAmish]

28. I spank my kid almost every day

Well, it is not really spanking. It is just roughhousing. She likes it. I could not hit her any harder if I wanted to punish her. So, punishments are time outs only.

[Dr. Strange]

30. Flawed study.

It turns out the aggression is more highly correlated with children who were circumcised.

[TZ]

31. .

NEVER has this smilie been more appropriate...:spank:
:hide: :rofl:

[Odin2005]

32. Put this in the "No DUH!!!" catagory.

Violent childhoods make violent adults.

[deaniac21]

35. Aw Hell, I still LOVE to be spanked!

[Trillo]

36. self delete n/t

[Trillo]

37. got a link to the study itself?

This one's making the hot story of the day rounds. I was actually interested, so I looked for the study. I couldn't find it. Anyone got a link?