Spanking tied to later aggression among kids

By Genevra Pittman NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Think spanking will help teach an out of control child to stay in line? A new study suggests the opposite may be true. Researchers found kids who were spanked as five-year-olds were slightly more likely to be aggressive and break rules later in elementary school. Those results are in keeping with past research, said Elizabeth Gershoff. She studies parental discipline and its effects at the University of Texas at Austin. "There's just no evidence that spanking is good for kids," she told Reuters Health. ...



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