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Yes, it is no secret how we at child-psych.org feel about spanking. Nestor and I have both posted on it before. Still, there remain arguments that spanking is less detrimental for children when cultural context is taken into account. That is, if spanking is more acceptable and part of the norm within a [...]
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This week I’ve been reading Steve Pinker’s wonderful new book The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined, which provides some compelling evidence about the drastic decline in violence throughout history. According to Pinker, we live in an extremely [...]
Continue Reading →There has been a lot of research done on maternal depression and we know that it can have a big impact on children. We don’t know as much about paternal depression because, quite frankly, there just hasn’t been the same focus on this issue. I was excited to come across an article by Davis and [...]
Continue Reading →And the argument continues…time-out versus corporal punishment. I could do a lengthy review of the research on both, but my bottom line will still be this: if you can utilize time-out and get desired (and better) results why hit your kids? (See Nestor’s 9/27/10 post for a discussion on spanking.)
That being [...]
Continue Reading →The most recent issue of the journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics included a report on the use of physical violence as a form of discipline (aka “spanking”) and its relation to intimate partner violence. The study examined a large sample of close to 2,000 families participating in a nationally representative study of families across the USA. The authors [...]
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