Spanking Children Makes Them More Aggressive

"Spare the rod, spoil the child" as the Bible tells us, but does spanking really work as a discipline method? A new study suggests that kids who were spanked were more likely to become aggressive:

The research, involving almost 2,500 moms, accounted for all sort of factors that might affect kids' behavior, including how aggressive they were to start with.

Researchers asked moms how often they spanked their 3-year-olds and also a bunch of questions about the kids' behavior. Two years later, the researchers checked back to see how the children were.

Even after factoring in all sorts of parenting risks, including drug use and neglect, the researchers found that kids who were spanked more frequently had a much greater chance of acting out aggressively two years later.

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I have read several of the comments regarding spanking or non spanking of a child. First, properly spanking a child is not a "beating." Second, I strongly feel that a child who has knowingly done a wrongful act needs to be spanked. I think this because to me a child who has never felt a little pain will more likely inflict pain on another child because they do not understand what pain feels like. I would like to know if in these situations of school shootings, did the children guilty of these awful acts ever get spanked as a form of correction or were they just given "time out" which can make a person very angry and resentful. I did spank both my daughter and my son in their early years of development. I "grounded" them in their pre-teen and teenage years. I noticed more anger and resentment because they missed social events, school events etc. When I spanked my children, it was quick, over and done with and they knew not to commit the same act that I felt warranted the spanking, not beating. Both of my children are now grown and are parents themselves. Both administer the time-out rule and all of their children are rebellious and spoiled to the point that anywhere the family goes, the children pitch fits, as I call them. I feel sorry for these grandchildren. They will grow up to be irresponseable adults too. I see it already in the give-it-me-instantly-generation now. God help America.
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Its interesting to me how most of the individuals who were spanked as children and commented on this thread have way more spelling mistakes in their comments.

The young lady who is 16 and resents her grandmother for spanking... my heart goes out to you... Just have faith that you can break the cycle of violence. So many people that were abused as children seem to condone the abuse, even identifying with it. Because you can recognize the abuse for what it is... you have a chance to stop it.

My neighbours where I live all condone spanking children. Instead of true discipline, when ever the kids start acting out they get threatened with getting swatted. It only makes them act out worse. The oldest boy recently got kicked out of school because he hits other kids. He also can't read at the age of 8ish.

Children need their parents undivided attention and love. Parents need to read to their children everyday and spend time with them fostering their creativity and learning. And children need to be disciplined, not spoiled. They need to be taught how to do all the things they need to learn as adults, and when they make a mistake, they need to be respectfully told what they did wrong. Most importantly they need to be respected or they will never learn to respect themselves or others.

I have a friend that is a felon who was regularly beaten as a child. His mother never had enough time for him or his other siblings; and his father, who had a problem with teenage girls and heroin, committed suicide. His mother remarried, and would allow his step father to abuse all of them. His mother had all the boys on pills like Ritalin, because they all acted out all the time. They were crying out for her attention and love, and all she did was give them pills. Amazingly enough my friend still condones spanking children. Like the young lady of 16 years, he never wants children. He sais that all the people in his family grow up to be criminals. Its no wonder to me really.

I really liked this article on the topic of spanking-
http://www.naturalchild.org/jan_hunt/tenreasons.html

This article clears up alot of misconceptions in some of the previous comments in this thread.

For satyagraha-
chathaunt
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Something to think about:

My half-brother grew up in his mother's house, where spanking or consequenses were absent. I, on the other hand, grew up with my father and mother who did spank us. My dad had a belt that he spanked my sister and I with. I, maybe, got a handful of spankings in my whole life and deserved every one of them. My sister and I both went on to graduate high school at the tops of our classes, and went on to college, and to have wonderful families of our own. My brother dropped out of high school and turned into a criminal. He is still a drain on society to this day refusing to get a job and still being taking care of by his mother. She never taught him that there are consequences for your actions. And he seems to think everyone else is responsible for him, never taking responsibility for himself. It is so sad. But I realize more than anyone, what a difference in upbringing can do to children.

If we don't get a handle on our children and turn around this obvious stray from actual discipline, I fear our society will self destruct when our children become adults. Its a sad thing to watch. I think it is the parent's responsibility to teach a child what it means to have consequences. And before the children have advanced logic and reasoning skills, the only sure fire way to show them is through appropriate spankings. I do think marks and bruises cross the line, however, a quick swat on the behind sends the message that out of control behavior will not be tolerated.

I've never been into a physical altercation with anyone in my life, and I got spanked with a belt 3 or 4 times in my youth. I have the best relationship with my parents. They are excellent parents.

Good luck to those of you rearing the little hellions that are increasingly becoming out of control on their way to the state correctional facilities.
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My father spanked me thousands of times when i was 3 and 4 years old.The reasons why I was spanked is REALLY STUPID.He once spanked me because i couldnt even tie my shoe!!!I was like 3 and he said some crap that he can do stuff more than me when he was little.I was like WTF I dont even give a darn heck of what he says.And its true that spanking girls will make them aggresive.Beucase I am very aggresive for that reason.
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