Where are your statistics that adults who were spanked are depressed, commit crimes, blah blah blah. From what I see the ones who are let run wild and never told no and never disciplined are the ones causing all the problems. Spanking is not violence. There is a difference between spanking, aka swatting a child on the butt, and beating them. No one said to beat the crap out of them. Spanking them is not going to hurt them.
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http://www.apa.org/monitor/2012/04/spanking.aspxhttps://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-science-says-and-doesn-t-about-spanking/Finding dynamic treatment effects under anticipation: the effects of spanking on behaviour: Authors:
Lee, MJ Huang, F ISSN: 09641998
Changing Beliefs About Corporal Punishment: Increasing Knowledge About Ineffectiveness to Build More Consistent Moral and Informational Beliefs. Robinson, Daniel H.1 dan.robinson@mail.utexas.edu Funk, Daniel Beth, Alicia1 Bush, Angela ISSN: 1053-0819
First two articles are just links from google. The next two are from a data base, so I don't think links will work. If you want to look them up I gave you the title of the article, the authors, and ISSN. I hope this makes my point clearer and allows you to understand my point.