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I notice today that another piece of 'research' claims to show that smacking children is not a good idea. In other places on this website you will find that the evidence from this 'research' is simply not consistent with the evidence from a wide variety of sources (e.g. see The Smacking Myths).
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www.angryharry.com/esSmackingResearch.htm
www.angryharry.com/esSmackingResearch.htm
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Smacking children 'does not work'; ... Research by Save the Children and the National Children's Bureau found that children understood they had to be told off if they misbehaved, but researchers suggested alternative punishments such as going without pocket money or being sent to their bedrooms might be more effective.
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news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/252607.stm
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Last year a cross-party group of MPs failed to force through a ban in England and Wales on smacking children after there was just four hours to debate legislation in the Commons. ... The latest research conducted in America has found that smacking young children affected their behaviour and their mental development.
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www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/6188692/Smacking-...
www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/6188692/Smacking-makes-children-naughtier-research.html
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Our vision is to create a world where every child is loved and cared for, and where every person is treated with respect. The focus of our work is to eliminate child abuse and violence. ... Welcome to the WAVE site ... Tackling the roots of violence...
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www.wavetrust.org/Preventing_Violence/Effects_of_Smacki...
www.wavetrust.org/Preventing_Violence/Effects_of_Smacking.htm
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Research has confirmed that smacking children teaches them to use acts of aggression and violence to solve their problems. It teaches and perpetuates violence as a way to solve ones problems. A sobering thought given our society?s growing concern about violence.
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www.childpsych.com.au/site/index.cfm?article_text=0&id=...
www.childpsych.com.au/site/index.cfm?article_text=0&id=12&keywords=&opt=4&pageMode=&pageName=articles
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Finally, if smacking is made criminal, that means social workers and police will have to investigate all sorts of trivial cases, and that will prevent them from being able to concentrate on cases where children are actually physically abused. ... We do know from our own research that attitudes are shifting. A majority of...
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www.cyc-net.org/features/ft-smacking2.html
www.cyc-net.org/features/ft-smacking2.html
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SMACKING, long used by parents to discipline naughty children, could cause more than tears. ... "All parents want smart children. This research shows that avoiding smacking and correcting misbehaviour in other ways can help that."; Children aged five to nine years who were smacked regularly had an IQ 2.8 points lower.
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www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,26122797-952,...
www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,26122797-952,00.html
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"Children are unbeatable!": A broad-based UK Alliance promoting childrens right to be protected from all corporal punishment. ... At a February meeting in London, Thomas Hammarberg told Westminster MPs: "Smacking children is not just a lesson in bad behaviour; it is a potent demonstration of contempt for the human rights...
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www.childrenareunbeatable.org.uk/
www.childrenareunbeatable.org.uk/
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Arguments against the proposed ban on smacking children under three; Perceptions of how ... Inter-generational continuities and change; Ambivalence in attitudes towards smacking; Smacking situations; Understanding of and attitudes towards the law; Parenting culture, discipline and the state; Appendix A — Research methods;
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www.scotland.gov.uk/cru/kd01/blue/dcrp-00.asp
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