Elizabeth Gershoff publishes a new study on spanking's negative effects. It covers 160,000 children and over five decades of research.

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http://news.utexas.edu/2016/04/25/risks-of-harm-from-spanking-confirmed-by-researchers

 

 

The more children are spanked, the more likely they are to defy their parents and to experience increased anti-social behavior, aggression, mental health problems and cognitive difficulties, according to a new meta-analysis of 50 years of research on spanking by experts at The University of Texas at Austin and the University of Michigan. The study, published in this month’s Journal of Family Psychology, looks at five decades of research involving over 160,000 children.