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April 28th, 2016 
Awake Goy
Susanne Posel ,Chief Editor Occupy Corporatism | Media Spokesperson, HEALTH MAX Brands
Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin (UTA) and the University of Michigan have become every child’s new best friend for publishing a study pointing to the bad behaviors kids learn by being spanked.
With data on 150,000 children in 75 independent studies spanning nearly 50 years, the team came to the conclusion that “there is a correlation between spanking and negative outcomes and absolutely no correlation between spanking and positive outcomes.”
Elizabeth Gershoff, associate professor of human development and family sciences at UTA and author of the study said children who are spanked “are more likely to be aggressive and antisocial… [and] the irony is that many parents spank when their kids are aggressive. So the child thinks you can use spanking to get what you want – kids learn that.”
Currently research shows that “by the time most kids get to high school, at least 85 percent have been spanked” despite the last 2 decades of parenting shifts to more “gentler, kinder parenting techniques involving positive reinforcement”.
This new study correlates with previous research, such as a Canadian study published in 2012 that linked the development of mental disorders to being spanked as a child.
According to this paper, as adults the subjection to spanking manifests itself as depressive and anxiety disorders, alcoholism, and drug abuse; as well as lowering IQ as children and causing adults to become anti-social and aggressive.
The National Epidemiological Survey on Alcoholism and Related Conditions conducted between 2004 and 2005 and encompassed of over 600 US adults over the age of 20 and showed that of those kids who were spanked 2 to 5% were likely to develop some sort of mental disorder.
Dr. Joshua Williams, Faculty in the Department of Psychology and Director of the Perceptual-motor Learning and Action in Infants (PLAI) Lab at Armstrong Atlantic State University says: “Some of the first writings on education and physical punishment in education state the fact that physical punishment is typically ineffective as far as changing behavior. The implications COULD be severe. When you read the title it’s very catchy and tells you that spanking leads to this.”
Williams believes the decision to spank your child or not is subjective, however he strictly suggests that time-out and taking a child’s favorite toy away is much more effective in curbing unwanted behavior.
Conversely, Roya Samuels, a pediatrician at Cohen Children’s Medical Center in New York, adds that “unruly behavior” has a strong genetic link that the researchers did not take into account.
Samuels said: “Parents who are resorting to mechanisms of corporal punishment might themselves be at risk for depression and mental disorders; therefore, there might be a hereditary factor going on in these families.”
Victor Formari, director of director of the division of child and adolescent psychiatry at North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System commented that the rate “is not dramatically higher, but it is higher, just to suggest that physical punishment is a risk factor for developing more mental disturbances as an adult.”
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recommends that children experience discipline; however parents should remember to:
• Establish a positive, supporting and loving relationship with your child
• Use positive reinforcement to increase the behavior you want
• For discipline, use time outs or remove privileges
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