No spank zone established in Detroit suburb

Now only the criminals will spank there.

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the research shows that more of the children who turn out badly were punished that way,"

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Does it account for the fact that lower income people are more likely to spank their children? I’d bet the kids being lower income is the main factor, not being spanked

Yes, not spanking has worked out so well for these past couple generations. Last I heard they were disrupting Congressional Judiciary Committee hearings for Supreme Court nominees with epic skyscreams and temper tantrums.

My wife and I are bringing back discipline, one arse whooping at a time. #resist

if i want to the beat the ever living shite out of my spawn, no sign will stop me god damnit

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Does it account for the fact that lower income people are more likely to spank their children? I’d bet the kids being lower income is the main factor, not being spanked

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Plus maybe bad kids are more likely to become delinquents, whether spanked or not. And bad kids are more likely to be spanked than good kids.

I can’t even remember the last time I saw a kid spanked in public.

I’ve seen plenty of instances of yelling and cussing at a kid, maybe even hitting, but not what I would call spanking.

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Does it account for the fact that lower income people are more likely to spank their children? I’d bet the kids being lower income is the main factor, not being spanked

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You cannot expect people who set public policy to understand the difference between correlation and causation.

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research shows that more of the children who turn out badly were punished that way

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This point has been made for decades, but it’s one of the dumbest chicken/egg arguments ever. Bad adults were usually bad kids. Bad kids get spanked more than good kids do. The research really suggests that spanking has little to no long-term effect on kids, and that’s the most convincing anti-spanking argument.

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This point has been made for decades, but it’s one of the dumbest chicken/egg arguments ever. Bad adults were usually bad kids. Bad kids get spanked more than good kids do. The research really suggests that spanking has little to no long-term effect on kids, and that’s the most convincing anti-spanking argument.

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I agree here. I think spanking lets the kid know what they did is bad better than a "timeout."

My dad would beat our arse...belt, knuckle sammich, punch, slap, spoon thrown from across the table...whateves was handy.

Send us to our room....his version of a "timeout".

Come in a little later after we've both calmed down, and gave us a "why I hit you" explanation that made you feel like absolute garbage for disappointing him.

Then he would ground us.

Perfect trificata. Ha.

I did ask him once when I was like in Jr High, why he hit us. He simply said something like, "Son, I love you, and I know when to stop. One day you'll cross someone, and he won't care about when he should stop."