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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]94 percent.

“ Even as several western European countries have outlawed spanking, surveys suggest 94 percent of American parents spank their children by the time they are three or four years old, although that number hides great variability in the regularity and severity of the punishment, as well as the context in which the punishment is delivered.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2002/06/26/study-harm-outweighs-benefits-of-spanking/0f72fe3e-d49e-4a04-993c-d0934a1df286/[/quote]

This article is from 2002, are you an idiot?[/quote]

Figure largely unchanged in 2022

https://nabtahealth.com/articles/does-spanking-do-more-harm-than-good/[/quote]

Is that the article you meant to link? Because it’s certainly not pro-spanking. It in fact talks about how research shows spanking increases risk of mood disorders and lowers IQ in children[/quote]

I think the point was that it’s very common. Nobody cares whether the authors like it or not.[/quote]

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