Spanking leads to sexual issues?
Well, here’s one more reason to NOT spank your kids:
The University of New Hampshire released a study that says spanked children grow up to have lives full of sexual problems. They surveyed 14,000 students and found that kids that were spanked grew up to become sexually coercive with their partners.
Hmmm … now I realize that spanking is done less today than 30 years ago but weren’t most of our parents spanked on a regular basis? I know, I know … let’s not go there!In any case, the study found that there was a strong relationship between the amount of spanking or hitting these people experienced as a children and the likelihood of later verbally or physically forcing their partners to have sex; i.e., holding down, tying up or hitting.
The study claims to prove that “each increase of one step in the measure of corporal punishment was associated with a 33-percent increase in the probability of men (physically) forcing sex and 27-percent increase in the probability of women doing this.”
Professor of Sociology and Co-Director of the Family Research Laboratory at the University of New Hampshire, Murray A. Straus, says, “These results, together with the results of more than 100 other studies, suggest that spanking is one of the roots of relationship violence and mental health problems.”
I wonder what problems these time outs might cause. We don’t spank our little darlings but we’d better put a little extra money in our kids’ therapy fund just in case.
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