Spanking Linked to Mental Illness??

[Carmelbythecorn]

Seems to me that this article has confused "punishment" and "discipline" and uses the terms synonymously; perhaps with the goal of creating the belief that they are one and the same.

Spanking Linked to Mental Illness, Says Study | Team Mom - Yahoo! Shine

What think ye?

 

[RockofStrength]

I would be curious as to who did the study and what their affiliations are (i.e. who sponsored their research). A child suffers far worse trauma playing a friendly game of dodgeball than when he is spanked by a responsible parent.

EDIT: having looked at the fine print, I saw that it was the American Academy of Pediatrics who attached their name and copyright to the study, though the data was from a separate survey (National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions). Their page at Healthychildren.org shows that they already have a previous stance on spanking .

 

[wizard_of_ahs]

I would be curious as to who did the study and what their affiliations are (i.e. who sponsored their research). A child suffers far worse trauma playing a friendly game of dodgeball than when he is spanked by a responsible parent.

EDIT: having looked at the fine print, I saw that it was the American Academy of Pediatrics who attached their name and copyright to the study, though the data was from a separate survey (National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions). Their page at Healthychildren.org shows that they already have a previous stance on spanking .

AGREED !!! These are the same people who classify children as "ADHD" because it's "BILLABLE"

 

[Double T]

I must have a mental deficit because I was spanked by the principal, and my parents, and my grandma...

 

[Carmelbythecorn]

I would be curious as to who did the study and what their affiliations are (i.e. who sponsored their research). A child suffers far worse trauma playing a friendly game of dodgeball than when he is spanked by a responsible parent.

EDIT: having looked at the fine print, I saw that it was the American Academy of Pediatrics who attached their name and copyright to the study, though the data was from a separate survey (National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions). Their page at Healthychildren.org shows that they already have a previous stance on spanking .

Wait...so you're asserting that maybe they have an agenda publishing this study? Shocked I am...shocked!

Yet those in the MSM will parrot this "study" as the gospel truth and intimidate parents into thinking they're hurting little Johnny and little Janey when they appropriately spank their child; with the result being be a bunch of narcissistic little a-hole children running around thinking that the world revolves around them. Well, at least these children will be uniquely qualified to be "journalists!"

 

[Carmelbythecorn]

I must have a mental deficit because I was spanked by the principal, and my parents, and my grandma...

And yet you live?

How can this be????

 

[LEaSH]

You are correct in that the article doesn't make a distinction between discipline and punishment.

They don't even acknowledge the fact that some children with no discipline go on to become really bad adults. Or at least they didn't bother to check when writing the article.

I know of a young man who was never disciplined or spanked - ever. He pretty much could do no wrong in the eyes of his mother. Sometime she would take away a toy or confine him to his room if he was really bad, but it never was for more than a few moments. When even his public school teachers and councilors recognized this they warned his mother about what would happen years from then. They told her that he was probably going to be a criminal if his behaviour continued unabated. Of course the mother flipped out. Guess where that young man is now? That's right, in and out of prison since he's been 16 or so. He's probably 36 now. Inmate locator says he's serving a 10 year stretch for drug dealing in New Castle penitentiary. He'll get out and do it again.

 

[littletommy]

I've heard that out of touch egghead special interest groups are linked to idiotic statements.

 

[ATOMonkey]

I can't wait to see studies done on "attachment" or smother parenting, as I like to call it.

 

[starbreather]

I have a personality disorder and so do I! I was spanked by everyone and I deserved it.

 

[Blackhawk2001]

I heard this tidbit on WIBC yesterday. At least the newsreader commented that the study didn't differentiate between a spanking and a punch in the face.

 

[traderdan]

I read this article yesterday,and if I remember correctly,24 countries in the world have made spanking illegal.Woe be unto the individual,government or any entity that would try to interfere with the proper upbringing of my children.

 

[gunowner930]

You can find a study that will say anything you want it to say. They mean nothing.

 

[level.eleven]

Doctors agree, hitting people can cause mental and physical harm.

More at 11.

 

[Que]

I have a personality disorder and so do I! I was spanked by everyone and I deserved it.

 

[Fletch]

I'm not a fan of spanking. I'm less a fan of junk science.

 

[IndyDave1776]

Could it be that these people are trying to force people into training their children to respond positively to Pavlovian conditioning so that they reach adulthood already conditioned to be subservient as a means to receive rewards or avoid the denial of such which is much easier for a government to manage by cutting the check or not rather than having to apply actual direct punishments to breaking realistic laws in classic sense of criminal justice?

 

[Caldad]

absurd!

I have an adult son that has developed mental health issues as he's aged, and I never spanked him a single time. I used to wonder if I had spanked him growing up, if it would have toughened him up, and helped him be able to deal with "life" better. After unintentionally breaking other peoples bones on three different occasions play fighting as a kid, I decided unlike my dad I'd never spank my child.

When people see something troublesome in their children, we tend to ask ourselves what could we have done so the undesirable thing/trait wouldn't have occurred. Not everything is in our control, or our fault as parents. In most cases, mental health isn't the result of poor parenting skills... especially discipline.

 

[sepe]

I must have a mental deficit because I was spanked by the principal, and my parents, and my grandma...

Got lucky and escaped the neighbors before being taken home and spanked again?

 

[Blackhawk2001]

I think this is a self-serving attempt to justify the crappy way kids are "disciplined" in schools. Dr. Spock should have been lynched.