Study shows spanking boosts odds of mental illness - Yahoo! News (http://news.yahoo.com/study-shows-spanking-boosts-odds-mental-illness-044440702.html)

People who were hit or spanked as children face higher odds of mental ailments as adults, including mood and anxiety disorders and problems with alcohol and drug abuse, researchers said Monday.

The study, led by Canadian researchers, is the first to examine the link between psychological problems and spanking, while excluding more severe physical or sexual abuse in order to better gauge the effect of corporal punishment alone.

Those who were spanked or hit as kids were between two and seven percent more likely to encounter mental issues later, said the research in the US journal Pediatrics, based on a retrospective survey of more than 600 US adults.

That figure may seem low, particularly since about half of the US population recalls being spanked in childhood, but nevertheless shows that physical punishment can raise the risk of problems later on, experts said.

"The study is valuable because it opens the conversation about parenting," said Victor Fornari, director of the division of child and adolescent psychiatry at North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System in New York.

I heard that crap this morning on the news ...........

If they start saying these zombie people who chew off people's faces are effed up in the head because of being spanked as a child, I am going to lose it. :eyebrow:

We was spanked, and me be fine.

I think I would have throw the B.S. flag on this one. Just imagine how many people have had their bottoms spanked in the lte 1800's to let's say 1960 and I don't recall having all the problems in schools and in society that we have today. Just saying!!!

I think the way the question was worded shows that they wanted the outcome to go this way.
Participants 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?" Those who answered "sometimes" or greater were included in the analysis.

My guess would be that out of the category of parents who "spanked" there was probably a percentage that did more than spanking and went into the abuse territory. And abuse would lead to more mental problems.

Yeah, these same groups of people probably consider substance abuse and addiction a disease.

"As a child how often were you ever pushed, grabbed, shoved, slapped or hit by your parents or any adult living in your house?"

I don't know about everyone else, but I don't see spanking in that list. I see a list of violent actions that are usually committed by an angry person, which is worlds different to me than "spanking."

My guess would be that out of the category of parents who "spanked" there was probably a percentage that did more than spanking and went into the abuse territory. And abuse would lead to more mental problems.

My thoughts exactly. Spanking isn't the problem - beatings are the problem.

Yeah, these same groups of people probably consider substance abuse and addiction a disease.

Or they consider smoking to be drug abuse.

When my step-daughter was little she came home from school one day and informed me that I was a drug addict. "I am?" "Yes because my teacher says smoking is a drug."

:rolleyes: :lol:

I just found out I should be locked up in a mental insitution as much as my father beat me (for no reason) as a kid :jameo:

I guess all those times I heard "You must be crazy" it was true. OMG

Send the padded wagon. :dead:

I was spanked...therefor i drink. :otter: THAT'S RIDICULOUS !!!:killingme