Spanks damage kids
29 April 2016 - 02:17
Children who are spanked are more likely to defy their parents, behave anti-socially and experience increased aggression and mental health problems. Those are the findings of a new meta-analysis of 50 years of research on spanking carried out by experts at the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Michigan.
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