WN: Pro-Spanking Studies May Have Global Effect - NewsMax

[WorthyNewsBot]

Two recent analyses - one psychological, the other legal - may debunk lenient modern parenting the way the Climategate e-mail scandal has short circuited global warming alarmism.

http://www.worthynews.com/top/newsmax-com-...1-07-id-345669/

[Guest LadyC]

fascinating studies, and they confirm exactly what i've always believed. sadly though, it won't have an effect on spanking i don't think, because most people will never even read it. this certainly isn't going to get the media attention that climategate got.

[Axxman]

This literally just goes to show that you can find a "scientific" study to justify just about anything. Including the hitting of children by adults...lol.

There are several obvious flaws in the Newsmax piece. First, there is NO COMPARISON to the almost 4000 leaked emails from leading climate scientists from the leading scientific center on global warming. Two studies from a psychologist and a legal activist hardly compare to that debacle. The fact that Newsmax feels the need to try to make that stretch is a clear indicator that the WEALTH of evidence on the subject of spanking goes against these two studies (as they are presented in the article.) Clearly, one can immediately assume that the article isn't going to present the studies truthfully...which made me look into it further.

Secondly, the Newsmax piece has SEVERAL glaring omissions. First, all of the 'positive' results noted in the story were on children ages 2-6. It also did not mention that these so-called studies did not track the severity or frequency of the spankings. I would think any true study on the subject would think frequency and severity are important. Newsmax also chose to leave out the findings that after age 6 (i.e. when a child may remember the beating administered by an adult) the consequences of spanking became increasingly negative. I have NO idea why newsmax would leave out that tid-bit of info?

Another thing Newsmax failed to mention...the psychologist who did the study, Marjorie Gunnoe, is not pro-spanking. In fact, she does not promote spanking children at all. How odd that Newsmax would choose to quote Mrs. Gunnoe one time (probably out of context) as if she supports spanking...but fail to show this quote from Mrs. Gunnoe..."This in no way should be thought of as a green light for spanking," said Gunnoe, who has studied spanking for more than a decade." Why, that quote would have been completely at odds with the entire Newsmax article...lol.

Newsmax also chose to gloss over Jason Fullers spanking study..presumably because they didn't actually read the entire 76 page study. While the study does focus on Sweden...and it does support allowing parents to spank...it does NOT say that spanking is the way to go. The entire study, which is done by a law student, examines how Swedens legal process in regards to spanking has effected parents discipline. Mr Fuller doesn't necessarily blame the lack of spanking for Swedens youth problem...but rather blames the parents for becoming more abusive and uncontrollable after they lost the ability to spank. In other words...parents who are told not to spank become abusive, leading to abusive children...therefore we should allow parents to spank...lol. In light of Mr Fullers study. I am inclined to agree that spanking a child is better than other more forceful forms of abuse.

[Guest LadyC]

i rest my case.

oh wait, my case was not many people would read it.

my second case should have been that the naysayers would never believe it anyway.

as someone who was spanked as a child, and who spanked my own children when they were young, i need no study to prove the obvious to me. like axxman said, you can find a studies to support anything you want, and i'm sure he can cite plenty that support his assertion that anyone who spanks is abusive. we've had that discussion, haven't we axxman?

[Axxman]

i rest my case.

oh wait, my case was not many people would read it.

my second case should have been that the naysayers would never believe it anyway.

as someone who was spanked as a child, and who spanked my own children when they were young, i need no study to prove the obvious to me. like axxman said, you can find a studies to support anything you want, and i'm sure he can cite plenty that support his assertion that anyone who spanks is abusive. we've had that discussion, haven't we axxman?

lol...yeah, I think we've discussed it a time or two.

As someone who is raising four children without spanking them the results seem pretty obvious to me. The point that I was making in my post was that Newsmax did not accurately report the results of the study therefore they should not be believed. If the lady conducting the study doesn't even hold the view that Newsmax is trying to spread...then why should anybody believe it?

[Guest LadyC]

truth be told, no media is ever going to accurately represent anything.