Posted on 04/12/2010 9:08:51 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
Spanking toddlersmakes 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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Even when controlling for other factors that affect child aggression by age five, such as parental neglect, maternal depression and stress, and the child's aggressive tendencies as a toddler, researchers found that maternal aggression begets childhood aggression. Toddlers who are spanked were more likely to grow into kindergarteners that bully, hit, and were destructive and disobedient.
Yeah, that explains gangs.
/s
Spare the rod and spoil the child.
It’s all B.S.
Or, more likely, more aggressive tots have to be spanked more to get their attention.
This is just more crap from the Alinsky wing of Science to destroy basic common sense familiar relationships.
ABC News - Courtney Hutchison - ‎39 minutes ago‎
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. ...
Reuters - ‎2 hours ago‎
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Punishing your toddler with a few swats on the rear may come back to bite you, a new report suggests. According to the study, kids who were spanked often were twice as likely as those who weren't spanked to develop ...
ABC News - ‎1 hour ago‎
A new study links frequent spanking with aggression in young children. Researchers at Tulane University surveyed 2500 mothers and found that when 3-year-old children are spanked often, they are 50 percent more likely to show aggressive behavior two ...
BusinessWeek - Amanda Gardner - ‎53 minutes ago‎
MONDAY, April 12 (HealthDay News) --Spanking children when they're 3 seems to lead to more aggressive behavior when they're 5, even if you take into account the child's initial level of aggression. ...
RedOrbit - ‎5 minutes ago‎
Children who were spanked as toddlers are twice as likely to become aggressive or destructive as they grow older, a team of university researchers claim in a new study. The findings were published online in the April 12 edition of the Pediatrics as ...
WTVW - ‎1 hour ago‎
Spanking your toddler not only doesn't make them behave better, but actually makes them more aggressive and unmanageable by age five. That's the finding from the most comprehensive study of spanking every undertaken. Conducted by researchers at Tulane ...
Pittsburgh Post Gazette - Pohla Smith - ‎11 hours ago‎
Lawrence Newman, a psychologist at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, often finds it tough to talk to parents when the subject turns to spanking their kids. "You can't argue with them," he said. ...
Aggressive tots need more spanking... lOl!!!
Actually, a certain amount of aggression is a good thing. The opposite is called “pushover”. I honestly would have desired that my parents spanked me more often. I got it one time. I have a hard time with conflict, but age is rectifying the situation finally. I’m 56 and getting rather cantankerous.
Or could this study have it backwards and it is mothers of more aggressive children who are more likely to spank?
Is this the storyline we're going with?
Maybe they were spanked because they were bullies, destructive and disobedient. No need to spank a well-behaved child.
Yeah, like I’m gonna take the word of these elitist leftists
over the Word of God.
“Aggressive” children are those who have never been taught that they aren’t entitled to everything they desire.
What happens when it’s the FATHERS who spank the tots?
LOL...I presume that was a rhetorical question...:)
Well put, by the way.
I was spanked as a kid and I turned out fine.
And if you don’t believe me, I’ll smack the crap outta ya.
;P
That, and they have not been rewarded (words work) for doing the right thin.
Three words: Family Violence Court
Abuse is likely to cause aggressive behavior. DISCIPLINE, unlike ABUSE, teaches a child respect, self-control, right-from-wrong, and so on and so forth.
These liberals have been trying to convince us that abuse and discipline are the same thing.
The last time I checked, those anarchists running around this country and destroying lives and private property came from those “spanking is evil” homes.
More of your liberal psycho-babble.
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