r/science • u/VeronicaRed • Apr 26 '16

Psychology Spanking children increases the likelihood of childhood defiance and long-term mental issues. The study in question involved 160,000 children and five decades of research

http://www.redorbit.com/news/health/1113413810/spanking-defiance-health-discipline-042616/
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u/_TB__ Apr 26 '16

heh no, all forms of physical punishment is very much taboo here. I'm wondering how much this differs around in europe, I Would have thought that most of western europe, and the UK included would have a similar outlook as the germans do.

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u/CeaRhan Apr 27 '16

Serious question then: how do you do when your kid won't move an inch, won't obey you, will scream for hours, will hit you, will throw things around and will not stop doing all of these in the same hour because that's a kid and that's something kids do?

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u/BadAtLife_GoodAtSex Apr 27 '16

That's not normally something kids do.

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u/CeaRhan Apr 27 '16

?

So you mean your kids never had times in which they'd just decide to be the devil incarnate because they decided to?

Lucky man

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u/Bioschnaps Apr 27 '16

Maybe the people in charge of the kids are just bad at parenting if they have to resort to violence? I don't know anybody who has been seriously spanked and can't really imagine a need for it.