Parents Talk: 9 Reasons You Shouldn't Spank Your Kids
Do you think spanking is a reasonable form of punishment despite a study that says it has long-term repercussions?
Editor's Note: This article originally ran on Monday, Aug. 27. We're featuring it again for our weekend readers. I read about a study last week that concluded that adults who were physically punished as children were at a greater risk of developing mental disorders like anxiety or depression. The correlation was startling. The study found that "almost 20 percent of those who remembered being physically punished had suffered depression, and 43 percent had abused alcohol at some point in their life," compared to "16 percent of people who were not hit or slapped who complained of having suffered depressed and 30 percent who abused alcohol." I'm not an advocate for spanking, hitting, slapping or any other physical punishment when it comes to …
Rebecca Graham
5:14 pm on Friday, May 10, 2013
I grew up being whipped but found a friend one day who was never beaten or whipped. She and her younger brother are some of the most passive and loving people you could meet. I wish I could have been raised like them. No I do not respect my parents. They took the zealot idiot way of raising children. Beatings are wrong doesn't matter what you call them! more ›