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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How do you know spanking causes harm?[/quote]

This was meant for the PP who claimed that she *knows* it causes harm.[/quote]

I put the *know* in the asterisks because I KNOW it in the gut sense that transcends "I think" or "I feel" because it permeates to my core. You might call that "I strongly believe" but since it is in fact backed by some pretty compelling data (studies mainly, but since i don't have to hold my observations up to scientific scrutiny, i would also include the observations of a good number of people with whom i'm close - family and not - and grew up with, and their discussions about how they feel about spanking today and how they were spanked as a kid). My parents were fine but they did spank, and none of us kids have a super close relationship with them. For me, i can't really pin it to a reason, i just am not really close to them. But my sister specifically attributes it to spankings. and really we didn't get that many of them compared to many kids. My brother is a junkie, so we can't really talk with him about it. Again, I'm not saying that my siblings situation is due to spanking and in fact i don't believe it is the only or even primary issue, but i think it didn't help. So the TL;DR version is I *know* because

1. gut feeling 
2. numerous studies 
3. my own experience 
4. numerous other personal observations  [/quote]

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