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RE: The Many Harms of Spanking in Less than 200 Words

in #psychology8 years ago

The "it damages the brain" argument made me chuckle: strange notion of anatomy :P
But I agree with OP that it banalizes violence and teaches the children that it's OK to use violence to assert authority. There is no need to make a controlled experiment to reach that conclusion: it's elementary logic. Small children learn by observing and imitating the behavior of their parents.