Who Do You Believe? February 20, 2009

There are many different people who share the opinion that spanking is not a negative form of discipline. In fact, a study in Ohio show that “70% of 800 family physicians and 59% of 400 pediatricians supported spanking.”(SSRN) If  people such as physicians and pediatricians, who have spent years at colleges studying human development and such, support this – then why don’t we? In addition to this a psychiatrist also supported spanking because after interviewing numerous kids he found that “they were far more upset by being yelled at by an adult out of control than they had been by being spanked by an adult in control and as a logical consequence of misbehavior.”(Academy) This same certified pyhchatrist interviewed over a hundred children in this study. Notwithstanding be ye sure of this: anti-spankers need to listen up because that is coming straight from the mouths of babes.