After unleashing a little whoop-ass on rampant corporal punishment in
U.S. schools in an earlier post, I came across a report on a
soon-to-be-released study about spanking within the home. Looks like
moms who say they or their partners spank also tend to use other, harsher forms of physically abusive punishment on their children. Harsher forms include beating, burning, kicking, hitting with an object somewhere other than the buttocks, or shaking a child less than 2 years old.
Which
is not to say every spanker goes this far. A good thing, too. Because
while some surveys show a slight decline in the use of spanking as a
form of discipline in the last 30 years, guess how many Americans
report spanking their 3- to 5-year-old children at least once in a
while:
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