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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's a matter of preference and your own values, not "knowing better." There's nothing to know. Research on this is weak, at best, and does not distinguish between causation and correlation, nor does it even attempt to consider greater context, or what actually constitutes a "spanking." [/quote]

Yeah, there's a difference between beating and spanking. A lot of posters here were flat-out beaten. And spanking with pants down is pretty bad too, in my opinion.

I don't oppose spanking on principle but I can't really picture doing it to my kids. It would have to be for something truly dangerous like running out into traffic. [/quote]

I think that's exactly the issue. When you spank you've given yourself permission to vent your frustration with your kids physically. It's very easy for it to go from quick smack on the butt when they're 3 to beating the crap out of them when they're a mouthy 10 year old. So yes a lot of people who were spanked as children were in fact beaten because spanking is violence and violence escalates. To do it without anger and increasing violence takes a lot of patience and control, which if they had that, they wouldn't be hitting their kids. [/quote]

I’m guessing there are just as many people who spank in a controlled and effective fashion and never “escalate to increasing violence.” Since you’re making a strong allegation based on numbers do you have data to support your position and how it compares to the number of people who don’t escalate?[/quote]

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