new research shows that spanking a child can turn them into a law breaker later on in life dun dun [Music] dun Anthony here for D news and my parents were thankfully physically pretty hands off when it came to discipline lots of talking lots of grounding not a lot of spanking and that is lucky because new research by the University of New Hampshire family research lab says that University students who were spanked as children are more likely to engage in criminal behavior and this is not just in the US this is across 15 countries in all
kinds of homes even when factoring in things like parental education level whether they were loving and positive and the students age gender and Country even people who grew up in homes with loving and helpful parents wound up showing higher rates of criminal Behavior so what is criminal Behavior according to this study well there were nine measures including antisocial personality assaulting a romantic partner attacking someone intending to inj them and stealing money now an increase in these behaviors does not mean that spanking a kid turns them into a violent criminal it just means it's not as
harmless as a lot of parents think and there's been a lot of other research that says the same thing according to a study done three years ago the IQs of children who weren't spanked between the ages of two and four were five points higher than the ones who were spanked when they reached the age of nine kids who were spanked when they were 5 to 9 years old wound up with IQs about three points lower than the kids who weren't they even had lower vocabularies and the more often they were spanked the slower their mental
development was another study that year surveyed 32 different countries and University students from countries with more spanking had lower IQs than students where it was less prevalent and it's not just spanking in the home students from schools that use corporal punishment you know like slapping hands with rulers pinching they wind up less able to perform tasks that require executive functioning that's stuff like abstract thinking long-term planning and delayed gratification why do we even spank kids well it's a cultural behavior and a psychological pattern if someone is spanked it normalizes it for them and then they
become more likely to do it to their own child later on in life about 60% of families in the US still use some sort of physical punishment on their kids but more and more psychologists are saying that spanking is just a euphemism for hitting and if you can't hit an adult you shouldn't be able to hit a child who's still physically and emotionally very fragile even and especially if it's your own child like I said I did not get spanked that often at all but I wonder if the few times I did actually affected me
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