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 | | There are strong indications that spanking actually leads to increased misbehavior, increased aggression and hostility, reduced empathy and compassion for others, and increased likelihood of a wide variety of emotional and behavioral problems, such as low achievement, depression, patterns of victimization, drug abuse, child and spouse abuse, and suicide. |
 | | Researchers who associate spankings with problems in later life are accused of being ideologically motivated, fishing for evidence to support their pre-existing opposition to spanking. |
 | | If getting spanked were simply the result of having an aggressive disposition, the kind that culminates in violent behavior, then wed expect the percentage of violent felons who werent hit as children to be about the same as the percentage of parents who refrain from hitting their children. |
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