BigSecksi

I think if you do not engage in activity that could cause maternity then you shouldn't have to pay for insurance. The possibility of the government forcing everyone to pay for it is even more frustrating. I consider it theft.

No removing spanking doesn't cause good parenting but you would have to assume on a country-wide level parenting didn't suddenly get worse just because spanking was outlawed. I have the full pdf of the article if you would like it. Empirical data is always hard to come by when social "sciences" are involved because it is really pseudoscience. You cant come up with hard numbers on things as complex as human development. The problem I have with most of those paper is the majority of them that deal with the affects of spanking reference the same study from 1998-2005. However, each paper cherry picks statistics from that study that correlate with the point they are trying to make (spanking is bad). You see over and over they mention mothers spanking 3 year olds (one of them even carries that title) and fathers with high-frequency spankings. That is because those are the only two outlying data points from that study that show a correlation between spanking and aggressiveness. When you look at all the data its becomes much much more muddled. In fact almost across the board the use of CP show almost no correlation with aggressiveness per the study they used to write their papers. This is just another case of cherry picking data to make it reinforce the point they set out to make before they looked at the data.

Explain the behavior that caused them to receive CP so they understand that behavior is unacceptable even if they aren't able to understand the complex reason WHY that behavior is wrong. Sorry I should have made it more clear. Don't post when tired.

One of the best papers in my opinion was publish by the Akron Law review. It looked into the explosion of youth violence that occurred in Sweden after there was a ban placed on corporal punishment. From a law of large numbers stand point Sweden is an ideal test bed for the differences made in the application of CP. There are also 26 studies touted by former head of the American Academy of Pediatricians that showed that spanking was far better at adjusting behavior than 18 other forms of non-CP behavior correction. There are studies dating back to 1997 from Marjorie Gunnoe. There was a 10 year study done by one of the California colleges. They studied 160 something families for a decade and found no negative impact from spanking. I will have to dig up that article to give more specifics.

The problem is there isn't any strong empirical data. In fact I find the better science tends to be on the side of spanking. Which coincides with my opinion that there is an important stage in a young child's life when spanking is a viable means of behavior correction. When they lack the ability to understand complex reasons why a behavior/action is dangerous then a little CP to adjust behavior is OK as long as it is part of good parenting approach. Never hit in anger and always provide reasons why the spanking was applied.