“…This week a study was released saying when children are disciplined using harsh physical punishment like spanking, they are at higher risk of depression, anxiety, substance abuse and other mental health problems -
- even if they aren’t otherwise abused or maltreated.
This is scary – because I just recently read an article in the Boston Globe that said that 70 percent of Americans think that spanking is sometimes necessary -
- and 90 percent of parents of toddlers spank them.
Ninety percent?..”
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Claire McCarthy, M.D.: Spanking: Parenthood’s Dirty Little (and Common) Secret.
