Anonymous wrote:spanking is clearly on the decline.
'why has it been decreasing for the past decades? There's no clear answer regarding this dramatic drop. Some experts believe it's a generational change, as humans increasingly reject any form of domestic violence, according to CNN. Others point to the influence of popular culture, with television stars such as "Supernanny" emphatically saying spanking does not help and should never be used. There has also been a constant trickle of studies showing the dangers of spanking, which can result in kids with increased aggression, depression, suicidal behavior, substance abuse and even changes in the brain.'

https://health.howstuffworks.com/pregnancy-and-parenting/spanking-decline.htm

Anonymous wrote: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/

Anonymous wrote:I think it will continue to decline with millennial and gen z parents. Most of the parents on here pro spanking are almost certainly boomers, old gen x, lower income or rural/ religious. I'd be shocked to hear from a millennial/ college ed gen z parent that they spank.

Anonymous wrote:Do these people also beat their dogs?
I feel like if you hit a dog it’s illegal right? But not a kid?

Anonymous wrote: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/

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Anonymous wrote:Spanking is so trashy. The only parents I know who talk about giving their kids a “good seat to the behind” cite the Bible in their parenting and are conservative. I don’t know anyone well educated and financially comfortable who resorts to this. We have other ways of instilling values in our children that don’t involve violence.

+1 absolutely trashy and low class. Associated with shitty parents who are poor and desperate and not yet mature adults themselves.

Trashy and shitty are not synonymous with poor.

no one said it was.
I'm UMC and i have never met a single parent who thinks it's ok to spank their kid. It is absolutely correlated in my mind and i think in most people I know's minds with being ill educated, desperate and having poor emotional self regulation or untreated mental health issues.

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Anonymous wrote:Spanking is so trashy. The only parents I know who talk about giving their kids a “good seat to the behind” cite the Bible in their parenting and are conservative. I don’t know anyone well educated and financially comfortable who resorts to this. We have other ways of instilling values in our children that don’t involve violence.

+1 absolutely trashy and low class. Associated with shitty parents who are poor and desperate and not yet mature adults themselves.

Trashy and shitty are not synonymous with poor.

no one said it was.
I'm UMC and i have never met a single parent who thinks it's ok to spank their kid. It is absolutely correlated in my mind and i think in most people I know's minds with being ill educated, desperate and having poor emotional self regulation or untreated mental health issues.

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Anonymous wrote:Spanking is so trashy. The only parents I know who talk about giving their kids a “good seat to the behind” cite the Bible in their parenting and are conservative. I don’t know anyone well educated and financially comfortable who resorts to this. We have other ways of instilling values in our children that don’t involve violence.

+1 absolutely trashy and low class. Associated with shitty parents who are poor and desperate and not yet mature adults themselves.

Trashy and shitty are not synonymous with poor.

Anonymous wrote:“ they NEVER forget it. The hurt and rejection it puts into their hearts will be something they tell a caregiver about when they are dying 70 years later. It will be something that they understand drove much of the unhappiness in their lives and in their adult relationships and which troubled their own experience of parenting because raising kids makes them fully understand how badly they were treated.”

Sorry, but this is simply absurd.

Anonymous wrote:I think hitting/spanking your kids is just lazy parenting.

Do better as a parent and actually take charge in being the grownup in the situation. Say "no," take stuff away, ground them, hell... even shame them. Shaming is so much more productive than hitting, imho.

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Anonymous wrote:Spanking is so trashy. The only parents I know who talk about giving their kids a “good seat to the behind” cite the Bible in their parenting and are conservative. I don’t know anyone well educated and financially comfortable who resorts to this. We have other ways of instilling values in our children that don’t involve violence.

+1 absolutely trashy and low class. Associated with shitty parents who are poor and desperate and not yet mature adults themselves.