Neocon, the article you copied from US News and World Report is an old one, published prior to the results of the Canadian study. While it is true that it is possible to claim that all research is flawed in some way, your article also points out quite a few negatives to spanking, gives examples of non-spanking ways of disciplining children that are ridiculous and suggest the bias of the authors, set limits on spanking that is less likely to be harmful that are certainly not followed by most parents who do spank, and also points out that parents who spank are more likely to be poor, uneducated minorities.
While it is quite egalitarian of you to be damm proud to be in such a downscale group, as a rather intellectual person I don't understand how you can cite such an article seriously. The bias of the authors is particularly obvious when they report that reported child abuse actually went up in Sweden after the no spanking law was passed. Gee, do you think that could possibly be because it had suddenly become ILLEGAL, and the crimes were REPORTED? Certainly, the reduction of child mortality in Sweden due to child abuse from 18% to 0% since the law was enacted would tend to suggest that child abuse has dropped, not increased, would it not? |
