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Study says – Spanking can lead to mental illness

Parents: how do you punish your children when they get out of line and you need to make a quick disciplinary action?

Do you count to three, but don’t have any idea what to do when you reach the number four, five, or ten?

Sometimes spanking – or, at the very least, a quick swat on the butt to get a child’s attention – is the method of last resort for some parents.  Look, whether you agree with spanking or not, parents should agree that the reason spanking has survived as long as it has over the generations is because it works.

While the old adage of “this hurts me more than it hurts you” may come into your mind if you decide to spank your child, that may not necessarily be true anymore.

Discipline without Shouting or Spanking
Discipline without Shouting or Spanking

A RECENT STUDY from the UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA in Canada has determined that spanking children can lead to adult psychological disorders, even to drug and alcohol abuse.

In the study, they concluded that 2%-7% of all mental disorders were linked to some form of physical punishment, such as spanking.  Researches say that this shows that no child should ever be spanked, less the spanked child ends up with some traumatic situation as they get older.

Do you agree?  What has been your experience, either as a parent who spanked their children… or as a former child who was spanked when you misbehaved?  Did your kids turn out okay?  Did you?   Let us know in the comments, below…