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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What you're still not understanding is that they're making no effort to isolate correlative factors. Nor do they even distinguish mild spanking for specific defiance from frequent and constant spanking or hitting. You just can't draw meaningful conclusions from that data.[/quote]

[i]Despite hundreds and hundreds of studies, the general public, and sometimes even some social scientists, can’t seem to agree on how harmful or beneficial spanking is. Part of the problem is that the research on spanking is messy. [b]It’s hard to separate out all the different factors that might influence how a child turns out, and spanking has a chicken-or-egg problem: Do more difficult children simply get spanked more by their parents, or does getting spanked cause kids to act out and misbehave more?[/b] (The handful of long-term studies looking at this question point to the latter.) [b]But the research isn’t so messy that clear patterns haven’t emerged from it: the vast majority of social scientists agree that spanking can lead to problems in childhood and adulthood and doesn’t have any real upsides[/b][u]. [/i][/quote]

I realize he is a controversial figure, and also not a social scientist.  But anecdotally, spanking has a real upside, or rather, not spanking has a real downside:  http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702303519404579354801246309702[/quote]

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