CNN Opinion Piece: Spanking hurts kids in the long run, too

[STer]

Spanking hurts kids in the long run, too

 

Nice mainstream coverage of anti-spanking

[Lowe D]

The guy did his doctorate at Michigan.  I wonder if he came out of the same lab where Elizabeth Gershoff worked.  She published that big meta-analysis of hitting studies, several years ago.

 

EDIT:  Oh, he mentions her in the article.  I guess that lends credence to the theory.

[LovePrevails]

it's a good week for this, Psychology today also covered it:

 

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/moral-landscapes/201309/research-spanking-it-s-bad-all-kids