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6th December 2017
03:46pm GMT

Of those, 69 percent said that they had experienced corporal punishment as a child.
“The current study adds to the knowledge by showing that being physically punished as a child is linked to perpetrating dating violence as a teen and young adult,” senior study author Dr Jeff Temple said of the findings. “While we can’t say that spanking causes later violence, it follows that if a kid learns that physical punishment is a way to solve a conflict, he/she may carry that over into conflicts with later intimate partners.”Addressing the argument that many use, Dr Temple said that the lack of benefits to spanking should be enough reason not to do it.
“Many people will say, ‘I was spanked, and I turned out just fine.’ “That may be true, but some people were spanked and did not turn out fine (just as some people choose to not wear seat belts and are fine). “We should not take the risk, especially when there are zero benefits to spanking.”
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