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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was spanked a few times. I actually spanked my kids more than I was spanked as a child.

I remember as a child both the angry swat in the moment type spanking, and that could be a little bit scary, as well as the measured, judicious, over the knee spanking. The second one was not scary, but it was effective.

That is the spanking that we used with our kids when they were a little bit younger, and it was effective when warnings or other consequences were not.

The data and studies that people cite purporting to show adverse effects never attempt to control for any factors like type of corporal punishment, context, frequency, inherent disposition of the child, socioeconomic factors, or a thousand other variables. They see it only as a binary factor, and to draw conclusions from that is absurd.

A spanking administered after a child has definitively crossed a line in behavior, that is delivered dispassionately, not out of control, where it’s conveyed before and after that this is a consequence of his choices and behavior, is extremely effective and not harmful.[/quote]

What you're saying is true at all about the research. There are dozens of studies that control for numerous confounding variables including parent income, race, gender, siblings, age, and even crazy stuff like self-reported parent behavioral problems when THEY were kids. They also sometimes use the child as their own control, examining changes of behavior within the same child over time as the frequency of spanking changes.  The bulk of this research concludes that spanking has negative effects on children in both the short- and long-term. There are even meta-analysis papers that examine the clusters of well-conducted research and make the same conclusion. So please don't make stuff up. Here is an example of one relatively recent meta-analysis involving over 100 studies that concludes that numerous negative effects are evident and no positive effects are evident:

http://129.171.236.12/faculty/dmessinger/c_c/rsrcs/rdgs/emot/spanging.meta.2016.jFamPsych.pdf[/quote]

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