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IndiReloaded
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If you can't apply this principle to the specific, then you are just spouting useless rhetoric.
Anyway, here are some references on the subject, some original papers, some reviews or articles referring to research. I tried to be balanced in what I took to show both pro and anti-spanking, tho its true there is some murk in how corporal punishment is defined by some.
Again, tho, I state that its Incognitos hitting his kid with a belt that I find most offensive, and unnecessary. I think spanking is just as unnecessary with the other methods we have available b/c its on that slippery slope. Sure, kids can "survive" spanking, but is "surviving" really the best we want for our kids?
Anyway, read for yourself, and make an informed decision. If you still decide to hit your kids, clearly I can't do anything more about it except try to educate you to better alternatives. Some of these references (those from Pediatrics) you won't be able to read unless you have access to an institutional account. You should be able to look up the abstracts on something like Medline, tho.
Good luck.
Deater-Deckard, Kirby; and Dodge, Kenneth A. "Externalizing Behavior Problems and Discipline Revisited: Nonlinear Effects and Variation by Culture, Context and Gender", Psychological Inquiry, Vol. 8, No. 3 (1997), pp. 161-175.
Day, Randal, "Predicting Spanking of Younger and Older Children by their Mothers and Fathers," Journal of Marriage and the Family 60 (February 1998): 79-94.
Straus, 1994; Kipnis, 1999; Kindlon and Thompson, 1999; Newberger, 1999; Hyman, 1997.
Straus M.A., Stewart J.H. (June 1999). "Corporal punishment by American parents: national data on prevalence, chronicity, severity, and duration, in relation to child and family characteristics". Clin Child Fam Psychol Rev 2 (2): 55–70. doi:10.1023/A:1021891529770. PMID 11225932.
Straus, M.A. and Donnelly, D.A. (1994). Beating the Devil Out of Them: Corporal Punishment in American Families. New York: Lexington Books. ISBN 0029317304
Larzelere R.E. (October 1996). "A review of the outcomes of parental use of nonabusive or customary physical punishment". Pediatrics 98 (4 Pt 2): 824–8. PMID 8885980. [url=http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/cgi/pmidlookup?view=long&pmid=8885980]A Review of the Outcomes of Parental Use of Nonabusive or Customary Physical Punishment -- Larzelere 98 (4): 824 -- Pediatrics[/url].
Baumrind, Diana (1966). "Effects of Authoritative Parental Control on Child Behavior". Child Development 37 (4): 887–907. doi:10.2307/1126611. [url]http://persweb.wabash.edu/facstaff/hortonr/articles%20for%20class/baumrind.pdf[/url]. Retrieved 2009-08-26.
Baumrind, Diana (1967). "Child care practices anteceding three patterns of preschool behavior". Genetic Psychology Monographs 75 (1): 43–88. PMID 6032134.
"Findings Give Some Support To Advocates of Spanking", The New York Times, 25 August 2001.
MacMillan H.L., Boyle M.H., Wong M.Y., Duku E.K., Fleming J.E., Walsh C.A. (October 1999). "Slapping and spanking in childhood and its association with lifetime prevalence of psychiatric disorders in a general population sample". CMAJ 161 (7): 805–9. PMID 10530296. PMC 1230651. [url=http://www.cmaj.ca/cgi/pmidlookup?view=long&pmid=10530296]Slapping and spanking in childhood and its association with lifetime prevalence of psychiatric disorders in a general population sample -- MacMillan et al. 161 (7): 805 -- Canadian Medical Association Journal[/url].
Graziano A.M., Hamblen J.L., Plante W.A. (October 1996). "Subabusive violence in child rearing in middle-class American families". Pediatrics 98 (4 Pt 2): 845–8. PMID 8885986. [url=http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/cgi/pmidlookup?view=long&pmid=8885986]Subabusive Violence in Child Rearing in Middle-class American Families -- Graziano et al. 98 (4): 845 -- Pediatrics[/url].