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The bottom line is — spanking hurts: Study
Punishment. Canadian researchers say there’s a link between spanking and mental-health disorders in adults
A spanking may hurt a child’s bottom now, and their mind later on. Childhood spanking and other forms of harsh physical punishment can increase the chances of developing mental health disorders in adulthood, according to a newly released pediatrics study conducted at the University of Manitoba. “It contributes to the growing body of literature that indicates there are harmful consequences to the use of physical punishment,” said the study’s lead author, Tracie
Reasonable force
Though spanking is illegal in more than 30 countries, including Sweden and Costa Rica, it is still legal in Canada. • Section 43 of the Criminal
Code states that a parent is justified in using force toward a child between the ages of 2 and 12, if the force is reasonable.
• It’s considered abuse if an
instrument is used, the head is struck or if it leaves any marks.
Afifi, an assistant professor at the University of Manitoba in the department of community health sciences. The study accounts for many of the con-
founding factors in past research, she said, like having a history of family dysfunction. The authors estimate that eliminating childhood physical punishment could reduce the incidence of some mentalhealth disorders in adults by up to seven per cent. They defined corporal punishment beyond the traditional spank on the bum to include pushing, grabbing, slapping and hitting, but excluded all forms of severe child abuse. “This is what most of us would consider within the realm of OK, and I think parents really, really have to start looking at how they teach their children,” said Diane Sacks, an assistant professor of pediatrics at the University of Toronto and former president of the Canadian Paediatric Society. torstar news service
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