Study: Spanking Can Bring Problems Later

(AP) -- New research by a University of New Hampshire domestic abuse expert says spanking children affects their sex lives as adults. Professor Murray Straus concludes that children who are spanked are more likely as adults to coerce partners to have sex, to have unprotected sex and to have masochistic sex.

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Posted by superhuman 03/01/08 11:25

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There are to many confounding factors to draw such silly conclusions for example:
1. People with masochistic tendencies remembered being spanked much better then those without them even though both groups were spanked the same.
2. Children who were careless were spanked more often by their parents because of not listening to their warnings and now they are having unprotected sex cause they still don't listen to others warnings.
3. Children who were violent and abusive to other children were spanked by their parents who were punishing them for that kind of behavior, now those children are still violent and abusive to their sex partners and coerce sex.
4. Lastly that women were 12 percent more likely to have coerced sex from a partner also sounds very suspect to me. Maybe when they do it they remember it for longer than males.

These are alternative explanations I made on the spot, they all invalidate drawn conclusions. Psychologists really need to pay more attention to scientific method and do their research by arranging experiments in controlled conditions instead of devising some silly polls and then drawing any conclusions they see fit.
All such "research" does is undermine peoples respect for psychology (mine is almost gone).

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Posted by zbarlici 03/01/08 13:58

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there is a gargantuan number of factors that play in the development of an individual`s behavior. Sometimes behavioral studies result in clear conclusions about what factors played what role in the development of an individual`s behavior - such as psychos, clearly demented persons, etc.

But when it comes to the average individual, where the behavioral differences are subtle between different individuals, how do you differentiate betweent the thousands of aspects that play into this behavioral difference. YOU CANNOT.

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Posted by bigwheel 03/03/08 19:00

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Got the spurt part of this guy right. Why do these people get paid?
Who pays them?

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Posted by COCO 03/04/08 15:30

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I was raised by Jesuit nuns who took great pains to ensure we boys (and some lucky but nasty girls) were strapped. Even today I can only feel true unabashed guilt i.e. Catholic pleasure when spanked in the presence of a penguin figure.

Otherwise I lead a fruitfull life and don't spank my kids - ever!!