Flutterby™! : spanking harmful

Posting this somewhat for the content, but mostly because: Holy crap! This is the first time I've seen a popular site acknowledge the press release from which the article was rewritten! Hallefreakinlujah! We need to make citing sources something we demand from our media outlets, congratulations and major kudos to Science Daily for taking this step!

Science Daily: Risks of harm from spanking confirmed by analysis of 5 decades of research.

Taken from UT News: Risks of Harm from Spanking Confirmed by Analysis of Five Decades of Research

The study, published in this month’s Journal of Family Psychology, looks at five decades of research involving over 160,000 children. The researchers say it is the most complete analysis to date of the outcomes associated with spanking, and more specific to the effects of spanking alone than previous papers, which included other types of physical punishment in their analyses.

“Our analysis focuses on what most Americans would recognize as spanking and not on potentially abusive behaviors,” says Elizabeth Gershoff, an associate professor of human development and family sciences at The University of Texas at Austin. “We found that spanking was associated with unintended detrimental outcomes and was not associated with more immediate or long-term compliance, which are parents’ intended outcomes when they discipline their children.”