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Canadian researchers have linked mental disorders to being spanked as a child. As adults, say the study, the subjection to spanking manifests itself as depressive and anxiety disorders, alcoholism, and drug abuse. The study also asserts that being spanked as a child lowers IQ and causes adults to become anti-social and aggressive.
The researchers wrote that their study shows ” the risks associated with physical punishment is robust.”
The analysis was conducted by Dr. Joan Durrant of the family medicine and social sciences department at the University of Manitoba, and Ron Ensom of the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario.
The authors of the study included the banning of physical punishment by 11 countries, following the adoption of the Convention on the Rights of the Child by the United Nations in the 1990s. Those countries were among the 191 of the world’s 196 countries who ratified the convention.
“Three forces — research, the convention and law reform — have altered the landscape of physical punishment,” the researchers said.
The UN’s Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) “legally binding international instrument” adopted in 1989 is a “special convention” of international leaders that outlines special needs of “people under 18 years old often need special care and protection that adults do not.”
The UNCRC admonishes governments and policymakers to “[commit] themselves to protecting and ensuring children’s rights and they have agreed to hold themselves accountable for this commitment before the international community.”
The UN defined the UNCRC beginning with the United Nations Charter in 1945. They defined family as the “the natural and fundamental group unit of society” and promised to enforce international mandates against any nation that did not uphold their definitions of human rights in individual sovereign countries.
By enforcing their “new vision of the child”, the UN sees children as an “individual” over the structure of the family and contributor to the “community” by declaring their “rights and responsibilities appropriate for [their] age and stage of development.”
The UN sees the advent of industrialized nations as ignoring the “special needs” of children. The UNCRC obligates governments to “amend and create laws and policies to fully implement the Convention; they must consider all actions taken in light of the best interests of the child.”
The study, published in the US journal Pediatrics, first analyzed theoretical correlations between psychological problems and spanking, while excluding more severe psychical and sexual abuse in order to isolate corporal punishment and single out the parental discipline.
The researcher’s definition of “harsh physical punishment” was pushing, grabbing, shoving, slapping or hitting as a form of punishment from parents.
The biased research showed that children who were spanked were 2 to 5% more likely to develop mental disorders. This information was taken from retrospective surveys from 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.
Participants in the study were asked: “As a child how often were you ever pushed, grabbed, shoved, slapped or hit by your parents or any adult living in your house?”Any response but “no” was counted as a “yes” and added to the coercive outcome that the researchers needed to prove their hypothesis.
Experts claim the number must be too low, considering more than 50% of the American population can recall being spanked as children. Yet this study will most certainly be used to “prove” that physical punishment will elevate the risk of problems “in the future”.
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.
Alternative modes of thought see excessive use of time-out as resembling the confinement of imprisonment, and taking away prized possessions teaches children that adults will betray trust and manipulate their children in order to ensure they behave as desired.
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 in New York, said: “The study is valuable because it opens the conversation about parenting.”
Formari was not involved in the study, but 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.”
Researchers asserted that the mere memory of being spanked as a child could induce the adult mind to develop addictive and destructive disorders. While they failed to find direct links from exposure to corporal punishment and the advent of psychological problems.
The American Academy of Pediatrics opposes striking children for any cause and the Canadian Paediatric Society recommends that doctors strongly discourage the use of physical punishment.
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29 comments:
Of course, if you try that on an adult, you can legally be shot dead.
How would you like being little and helpless... and then physically assaulted, because of that same condition, forced upon you without so much as a word of apology?
Spanking is not beating, pushing, slapping or other aggressive corporal punishment. A wap on the bottom to put an exclamation point to an instruction like "I told you, don't play in the street!" is appropriate. A "go cut a switch" followed by a couple swaps to show that certain unacceptable behaviors have certain unpleasant consequences does not stunt one's emotional growth. It teaches one a lesson that is invaluable and at a small price. Better than being thrown in jail on a felony count at age 17 because no one cared enough to wallop you when you deserved it when you were 11.
Appropriate punishment is not a physical assault. It is a consequence received and it is a clearing of the slate. Frankly, I preferred a couple slaps to my backside, rather than being grounded for a month. The point was made, I wasn't going to do it again (or get caught, anyways), and I didn't have to stew over my lot for a month, feeling more and more resentful as the days dragged on. True Justice.
And as for being legally shot dead, I call Hyperbole!! that would be excessive force and you would get manslaughter at the least.
Anonymous, you've got to explain things to kids, you can't just hit them and say don't do it. They just get confused and resent you. It stifles their exploration of the world and trains them to fear you.
All of the conventional punishments parents give to kids are detrimental because they all focus on authority without reasoning and explanation. So you want to raise a smart child? Explain the why's of what they should do, don't just say "hey, quit it."
Everything you advocate is based on severe, unflexible punishment instead of teaching.
To all the geniuses here who favor spanking: Kids learn primarily by example. By nature they tend to emulate the behavior of their parents. A parent that uses physical violence as a means of communication is teaching his child that it is acceptable to use physical violence as a means of communication. Argue against this point as you will, attempt to rationalize your barbaric belief system, I really don't care. Violence begets violence. Period.
Believe that, and they'll sell you some swampland in the desert....They will never stop trying to grab the youth and turn them into mindless, senseless, spineless wusses. Even the Bible says, spare the rod, spoil the child, amongst many other ways to keep the kid on the straight and narrow, and physical "meat tenderizing" is one of them. More Dr. Spock philosophies.
does anybody of you here actually have and raise kids, because to me it sounds like utter bullshit. who the heck loving his kids would spank, shove push them without strong reason like it sounds here? nobody. it sounds like parents would spanks their kids every 5 minutes for every thing they can t get their head, what a nonsense. we got 2 daughters and giving a slap on the back is last resort when they deliberatly and for an important reason disobey. throwing sand in the sisters eyes isn t exaclty nice and after the second time a slap on the back gives quicker results than taking away a favourite toy. with the truckloads of toys kids got these days they don t really care that much as there is enough other stuff to play with. this is bullshit talk from scientists and people without kids telling people with kids what to do. get a life, take care of real kids.
I would think sitting in front of the idiot box for hours, night after night would be far more devastating than disciplined parenting.
Those of you who would not spank your children treat them as some sort of sacred cow. When my children lied to me, I would lie to them... so they could feel what it's like being lied to. When they were rude to me, I would be rude right back, and say: "How do YOU like it ?" I home-schooled all my 5 children. They are far and above all others their age. My daughter bought me a cream puff used Cadillac for Father's Day, when she was only 13 years old. Yet I once took my belt to her for robbing us of $2,400.00 She thought my money was her money. She learned the hard way. She has since paid us back. Today she wears a $5,000.00 engagement ring on her finger and is driving a 2006 Honda. Her wedding will be next year when she turns 20.
I sat at 7 of her piano recitals listening to her play Mozart. She has my temper. Which we both inherited from my mother. And Mom would whip the hell out of me whenever she could catch me. I served in Korea as a Nike Hercules Missile crewman. I'm an Artist who own's a Screen Printing company. I paint portraits, sculpt and make fountains, and I lay my own bricks. I'm just finishing building my portable sawmill all hydraulic that can lift a 32' x 36" dia. log up on its own bed. I was a hyper-active highly talented child who desperately needed, who relied on Mom's corrections, and whippings to give me an instant report of how I was treating her and others as I was feeling my way through life. On her death bed, she looked up at me and said: "I have to hand it to you Tom, you really tried your wings."
We always loved each other. She died of cancer at age 59. Her own Dad died in her arms when she was only 18. If you are afraid to whip your kids when they need it, it is because your love for them is anemic. You fear losing the little bit of love they have for you. Mom's heart was as big as a bath tub. I felt her heart beating for me all the way to Korea. She would lay down her life for me. Or snuff mine out if I ever was unkind or offended anyone. I am a 66 year old Graphic Designer. My mother encouraged me to follow my Artistic talent. She demanded it. I've been self employed now for 40 years. I'm fire proof. My oldest daughter is a Fashion Designer, my oldest son developed his Art the same as I. My step son runs our Printshop. My 19 year old beautiful daughter fears and loves me to death. Now we are fighting over her new West Highland Terrier puppy her Fiance' is buying for her. We will receive him in August. She accepted the name I came up with, "Sailor" I plan on carrying some bacon around in a baggy in my pocket. I'll get it to love ME more. Raising children is all about LOVE. Don't be afraid to correct them. No bruises, and no broken bones. Just learn, somehow, to break their heart so they fall for you and not against you. That is the challenge. You are the Archer, they are the Arrows in your quiver. Let the bending of the bow in your arms be for gladness. Then cut them loose and let them fly into the future. Sadly you may never see where they land. Aim straight and true.
Seems to me all our societal problems began when we STOPPED spanking out of control little brats. They then turned into scientists who provide worthless studies and become Marxists.
You do violence, you teach violence. It's that simple. Those not equipped for parenthood should consciously avoid it. The contents of this article ring true to me. I, as a thrashed child, chose not to have children. I could not bring myself to put myself in the position of remotely being the monster my parent was to another human being. Ever. sad, but true. The world is a better place because of it. Now if only I could love myself, after years of this kind of abuse.....
Okay, there's a world of difference between being physically abused and getting a spanking. As a parent to three beautiful daughters (one a full grown adult), I know for a fact that there are times when a child cannot be reasoned with. Toddlers, for instance (even the most intelligent), do not understand concepts such as "danger." When a toddler keeps reaching into the silverware drawer, for instance, and grabbing for the steak knives, you can tell her until you're blue in the face, "Don't touch those, baby, they're dangerous. They can hurt you."
She'll NEVER get the concept until she grabs the thing by its blade and needs to go to the hospital. Instead of that happening, a quick swat to the butt and a loud, "Danger!" is FAR more effective.
An older child, capable of communicating with words and sentences, is more likely to be talked to and reasoned with, hence, less likely to need a swat.
My daughters and now well adjusted near- and young adults, not brainwashed by the FemiNazi agenda, well mannered, and ready for anything, and spankings had a lot to do with that.
Thrashing is not spanking. Define your terms. I know what being beaten is, and I know what being spanked is. Orders of magnitude in difference. It is not an all or nothing thing.
A wap on the backside for an intentional transgression that has been already EXPLAINED, thank you very much - does no damage, simply sets the limit. An attention getter, a statement of the seriousness of the parental guidance - not lasting damage.
I feel for those that have been beaten by their parents, truly - it is horrible and causes a fracture in the relationship between parent and child that lasts a lifetime. But equally bad is the abuse of the parent that will not take his or her child in hand. I would never advocate egregious violence towards a child. But a wallop on the backside makes a point when the child has decided to act out and push the envelope. The point is not, "FEAR ME" - it is "There are consequences for inappropriate actions!"
Watch mothers of other species and learn. If they want their children to survive to adulthood - they wallop them when the child endangers itself.
Better a swat across the backside with crocodile tears, than burying the remains of your crushed child that ran out into traffic, even though you had painstakingly EXPLAINED how that was not a good thing to do.
The first FEAR of control that a person must feel should be be at the hands of big brother. They want a mentally 'clean-slate' when they get the'child' in their hands for indoctrination The state must be the only parent-figure to fear or account to..........
Wow. I found some good stuff on this site and always wondered what the demographic is.
Now I see it populated with people advocating violence to children as a "freedom" thing or "big brother" thing.
Give me a break. There is not justification for hitting a child and you only do it out of anger.
There is no pedagogical value. It's done by lazy and mean people that can't think of other ways to teach and lead their children.
I like freedom and want to be free of big brother but hitting children is retarded!
Point deducted from this website for advocating violence against children! It's a common delusion (I'm guessing that the author was similarly abused and doesn't recognize the damage that was done) but I had higher hopes for the author.
Some of the reasoning demonstrated by those advocating violence toward children is truly astounding. Fox News level reasoning.
I really did have higher hopes for this site.
People that don't beat their children are creating Marxists and femiNazis? Not committing violence against a defenseless child is going easy on them?
Only in the most violent country on Earth, where we imprison the most people on earth and wage the most war and kill the most people, can people think that beating children is actually "teaching" them something positive.
Wow. Marxists? Feminazis?
Advocating violence against children?
Wow.
Mikey,
I agree that a toddler will not follow instructions alone. They don't fully understand the concept of danger like with knives.
But yet you expect them to understand why you're hitting them?
Wow. How about you remove them from the danger and keep explaining it to them until they are old enough to understand?
In fact, since adults are even more capable of understanding then when my wife does something I don't like I should whack her. She'll start to figure out what is right or wrong.
Why can you hit a child to teach a lesson but not an adult?
Hitting them doesn't make them more capable of understanding . . . it just shows them their father believes in violence against defenseless children.
ANY parent that hits a child should go to jail.
To the idiot quoting the bible . . .
you really have no idea what garbage you're posting. The bible quote doesn't say what you claim it says and even if it did, so what?
Do you advocate stoning unfaithful women to death too? If your bible is so wise why pick and choose which rules to follow?
Mr. Mikey Freethinker writes:
"My daughters and now well adjusted near- and young adults, not brainwashed by the FemiNazi agenda, well mannered, and ready for anything, and spankings had a lot to do with that."
This is more revealing than you may be comfortable acknowledging. I suggest you look into the research about the sexual impact of a father touching his girls on the bottom in anger, etc. . . . . then you might not be so quick to claim they are "ready for anything."
Dale opines:
Posel loads this piece of subtle propaganda by labeling a study by a team of Canadian medical researchers as "Globalist Scientists."
Globalist is the perjorative term the paranoid right, which Posel often parrots (a new California bill, which deals with existing families with 3 parents, she has called a "Government take-over of Children.."), is the pejorative by which the right demonizes studies or actions it disapproves of. It disapproves of the warning that physical punishment has negative consequenes...so any study which supports that view is "globalist."
Then the article refers to a "biased study," which labeling it does not support with evidence. And it is unclear which study is in question, the Candadian study? Other "globalist" studies. The link to the AAP does not lead to any study to link to this claim.
A few other comments from research doctors are presumably lumped as "globalist scientists."
Globalist...biased....these terms are gratuitous propaganda rhetoric....
My view: spanking is violence upon a helpless child. It teaches that the stronger may subject the weaker to pain. It establishes a rationale for authoritarian behavior. It teaches the child that those you trust to protect you can turn on you and cause you pain.
Posel does not state her position except with her loaded rhetoric. But apparently she opposes the idea that children are individuals with rights (the UN position which she opposes as globalist authoritarianism).
Why should physical assault on a child (calling it spanking does not minimize the pain or harm caused) be ok while if it is done an adult it would be a crime?
If I ever see you hitting a child, I will kick your ass. Those without the ability to protect themselves from criminal behavior, whether children or the disabled or frail adults, require that those who care help defend them from the sadistic behavior which Posel slying endorses by labeling anti-abuse research as biased globalism.
Globalist scientists----just like those globalist scientists who have reported that polluting the planet is causing warming and extreme weather. Globalists, to the paranoid right, are the new Nazis (ironically, they were paranoid rightists). In other articles, Psel calls climate scientists "eco-fascists" and those calling for curbing pollution "global warming alarmists."
This is far right propaganda. Don't buy into it.Posel poses as a radial Occupier but that is a false front. And treat your children as the precious individuals they are.
@Henry
Absolutely DEAD on ... Why all the excessive corporeal force from school administrators and cops on OUR children within the "System" for silly asinine issues while using the CONTROLLED psy industry to tell parents it is criminal to correct harmful behavior with the "attention" getter of a pop on the rear. It's more profitable to drug them and tazz them. I have 2 children and let me tell YOU ... EVERYONE we encounter with or without children "CLAIM" We have the best children they have ever encountered. Respectful, patient, calm, mannered ... and I can tell you from years of raising and studying their behaviors, the pops on the butts to get them focused on the fact that dangerous/ inappropriate behavior/ anti-social interactions are not and will not be tolerated by OUR family. WHAT YOU BE THINK'IN, I WANT TO RAISE A BUNCH OF PSYCHOPATHIC BANKER/ LAWYER/ POLITICIAN/ CREEPS ... no thanks. We all love each other deeply for mutual understanding and respect. they each still get 20 hugs and kisses everyday and told they are the most important People in My life ... by the way, 1 child who was physically abused and harms 2 or 3 other People or is depressed and causes self harm can never add up to the person behind the orders of a military to slaughter millions of innocent children, women or men. just say'in ... get your priorities right.
Maybe someone who advocates spanking can explain: if hitting a child teaches them something, why don't we continue that on into adulthood? If a husband has told his wife he wants her home at a certain time, for her safety and his piece of mind, then why shouldn't he hit her if she's late? What's the difference, other than you go to jail for one and not the other?
My mother spanked me everyday because I deserved it and it made me a better person! I'm 70 and I have never been arrested but the prisons are full of people that were never spanked. The Holy Bible says "Spare the rod and spoil the child"!
@ leslie
Actually spanking doesn't "teach" anything ... it is what follows the spanking! As the saying goes you cannot reason with democrats/ republicans/ priests/ politicians or toddlers thru 5 to 7 year olds actually older still but you really should have moved on to different cognitive skill development. So to answer your question fully. You are presumed legally an adult around 14-15 and you are responsible for your actions at that point. Before then I am "completely" responsible for my child's actions. So to ensure they remain alive with as minimum damage I use the spanking, actually a good pop to cause a "break" in there hypnotic state to then verbally state what is wrong so as to have complete attention on me and the message to correct their behavior. I am not sure if you recognize around you that children and people are in some sort of haze. Unable to focus and stay on task. As far as the myth of teaching violence is concerned, if an ADULT cannot control their behavior of smashing, raping, shooting or maiming others I am unsure how "corrective" popping of a fatty behind that doesn't even sting after a few minutes can be generalized into such horrific behaviors. If that were the case all military and police would be out slaughtering daily by magnitudes from what they are already doing. All they are taught is violence and very little Peace and Law.
"There is no pedagogical value. It's done by lazy and mean people that can't think of other ways to teach and lead their children."
Lazy? Really? Can't lead? Huh. You should live in my house for a week. You'd change your mind awfully fast.
There is a big difference between abusively beating a child and popping them on the rear end a few times because they are Just.Not.LISTENING.!!!! Not listening and they don't freaking care.
I have a ten year old ADHD son. Let me give you a typical day for us and you'll understand just why he can drive me batshit crazy most days and why most days he ends up on everyone's bad side.
Morning: refuses to do his morning chores correctly. Is tardy for school. Whines about how unfair it is that he has to go back and do his chores since it's already school time and can't he please do them after school? For both refusing to complete his chores, whining that he should be allowed to procrastinate, and being tardy he loses all his electronics privileges for the afternoon(TV, video games, etc).
Afternoon: A very smart and capable boy he is, but after listening to him whine all morning and afternoon about how he just doesn't get his schoolwork and could someone please help him(when he does understand the material and instead simply wants someone to hold his hand through every single problem meanwhile guiding him through it to the solution and/or just plain giving him the answer) everyone in the household is so fed up with hearing him that we're ready to leave the house, go across the street, and scream to the heavens. Please bear in mind that this child is cyberschooled because the bullying got so bad that the local public schools that we had no choice but to remove him. If we sent him back he'd be killed. He has teaches to call, message boards to utilize, and even the teacher's chat room. He just likes to sit there and whine all day and play ignorant like he is just not incapable of understanding the smallest thing. He has no learning disabilities and has been tested for everything under the sun. He is simply a stubborn little tick. SO! By oh say around 2pm he's earned a writing paper(monotonous, repetitive paper of "I will act my age and be responsible about my schoolwork." front and back) for after school and is not allowed any other freedom until school work AND the paper is written.
Late afternoon: Seeing him twiddle his thumbs, drop his eraser on the floor twenty times, whack his brother in the head('oops!' with scrap paper accidentally, start a brawl with the same brother, sing, stamp his feet, roam around the room, and generally behave like an ass..... all hell usually breaks loose by 3pm max. He usually ends up getting his butt spanked and then he has to apologize to everyone individually and explain why he did the things he did instead of acting like he should.
Ok, so all you 'no spankers'... tell me. ENLIGHTEN ME! Is this abuse?
Under the Conventions for the Rights of the Child we cannot:
spank
stand them in the corner
isolate them
ground them
take away all their toys
etc.
Why? Because it would damage their poor little psyches and make it seem like they're unloved.
My son knows that he is loved but that his behavior(which we break down and analyze frequently with him) needs to change and we discuss exactly how it is expected to change. And yet, he is still a growing little boy. We acknowledge this and so does he. He knows that eventually he'll learn the lessons he chooses to learn and in the meantime he also knows that WE know that when we give an inch he has a tendency to take ten miles.
I used to resent my mother spanking me the few times she did when I was a child. Then I had kids of my own and once I understood how positively wild some kids can be I stand by my decision that spanking is not a bad thing if it is preceded or followed up with an explanation and a calming talk to help the child understand why you have escalated. When talking doesn't work you repeat yourself. When repeating yourself fifty time doesn't work then you start shouting. When shouting doesn't work then YES! you break out the paddle and you whip their ass.
Grounding from anything and everything doesn't seem to do anything for this one boy. The other boy it does work on. But my one stubborn son is a whole different little beastie. Every kid is different.
Every time I read of someone bashing the practice of spanking a child as a form of attitude adjustment my mind wanders to the horror I ear daily from the community pool and play areas here locally. I can hear them from my house, incidentally.
"Screw you! I don't want to do that."
"Now, Molly, I told you not to say those bad words."
"I don't give a shit!"
"Molly, I'm warning you."
"So?! Shit shit shit shit shit shit!"
"Young lady, come over here right now."
"NO!" She then procedes to run around the pool screaming at the top of her lungs, thus encourage the neighbors to call the police for a noise complaint in the community areas.
And on and on it goes. Guess how old the child is? Eight. Yes. Eight years old.
The next time you see a parent in a store simply ignoring their screaming child, you have that permissive behavior of the parents to thank for their child assaulting your ears.
If you don't teach your child manners then they will indeed act like the world is out to get them when they get older. Everything will be everyone else's fault but theirs because no one every told them NO and followed through with it.
No you don't ignore a screaming child, but you don't hit them. The problem with children is their parents don't act like adults, they think they can say "NO!" and smack their kids a few times. They think their kid's behavior needs to fall in line with societal norms and what do we get? A stagnant society full of people who think violence solves problems and there is a yes and no answer to everything. Open your minds, everybody, use some critical, creative thought. You really think you can beat sense into someone? Or might it be better to try teach sense? Don't take your frustrations out on the kid, teach them about what they're doing. According to Stefan Molyneux, this violence causes depression and stress and all kinds of mental disorders in kids. I can say I'm a result of just a tiny bit of spanking with a whole lot of negative reinforcement and no parental explanation. And you can bet I can't stand my parents and I"m incredibly depressed 10 years later.
It appears to me that the globalists are setting up the stage to confiscate kids if the parents are deemed to be physically abusive. Globalists don't care if the child becomes mental or not, they just want an excuse to take them! I think the most people are physical with their kids in one form or another so watch out.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvCZ0hSHxCM&feature=g-all-u
Have you seen the Michael Pearl instructional Child Spanking videos. It's pretty twisted. He even recommends using 1/4 inch PVC for beating kids.
The video is here but be prepared to cringe..... http://doodiepants.com/2012/07/08/michael-pearl-epic-beard-productive-child-beating/
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