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Quote by: The Bacon Guy  The fact is that it has a very real potential to be harmful. Can you guarantee that spanking a particular child will not result in long term harm? |
Your whole response was that I should "prove it" that spanking isn't bad. Well, what "proof" do you want? Psychological studies? "Experiments" done by researchers with an agenda? The truth is,
you can't give me any totally unbiased studies, and I probably can't either. There are some good studies from many of the people I named, but how can we tell good from bad?
And yes, spanking has a potential to be harmful if people like you yell fire and call even parental discipline "abuse." You convince kids they have a problem.
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Quote by: The Bacon Guy There is no evidence to suggest that this is the case for spanking. |
Not when the spanking that occurs is actually meant to be a conditioning stimuli.
I'm betting most of these so-called researchers and maybe even you have been convinced that they were beaten up or traumatized in their childhood. Or maybe they're just New Agers. Whatever it is, there's nothing wrong with spanking kids particularly in their developmental years, when it's actually the best option.
And so, I stick with all the statements I said before. You just don't get it, and you just won't get it.