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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Neocon who wrote (66428)	12/13/1999 10:45:00 AM
From: Edwarda	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

It is not only severity; it is also frequency. When one reads beyond the abstracts and digs into the samples, a lot of the studies are badly flawed, unfortunately. Few exclude children who have been abused, for example, and even fewer try to examine correlations with an eye toward the issue of frequency. I looked at one that did. The correlations with various emotional disorders in adulthood were markedly different between people who been spanked only rarely in childhood and those who had been spanked frequently.

To: Neocon who wrote (66428)	12/13/1999 10:48:00 AM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 108807

I am not the author of the studies; nor do I have the entire article in front of me, all I have are the abstracts, which I posted in their entirety. I suggest that if you want more information, you go to the library (NIH medical library in Bethesda, and Georgetown Medical Library in DC are both open to the public) and read the articles yourself. Here is a URL for a very balanced article on spanking, which presents arguments for and against. The arguments "for" seem to be chiefly religious, based on fundamentalism, and a literal view of the exhortation in the Bible that if you "spare the rod," you "spoil the child." religioustolerance.org