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January 8th, 2010 | 
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Kelly Anderson Wright
If you’re a parent of young children, you’ve experienced times when a spanking seems necessary, to warn against danger, or to instill discipline. In today’s world, parents struggle with spanking’s political incorrectness, buying into the notion that they may be “abusing” their children if they so much as swat their kid’s behind even once.
Correction.
Yet spanking was once quite acceptable, and multiple generations of children grew up to be successful, hardworking, entrepreneurial adults who privately question the more liberal concept that spanking is “bad” or “wrong.” “My parents spanked me, and I turned out just fine,” they reason.
Perhaps they turned out better than just fine, because they were spanked. A new research study shows that children who were spanked in childhood are happier and more successful adults than those who were never spanked.
According to a new study by Marjorie Gunnoe, professor of psychology at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan, children who were spanked up to age six are more likely as teens to perform better in school, conduct volunteer work and want to go to college than their peers who had never been spanked.
Not surprisingly, children who continued to be disciplined physically into adolescence are not happier and more successful; instead, they show clear behavioral problems.
Children’s groups and lawmakers around the world have long claimed spanking is a form of abuse that causes long-term harm to children. In the UK, such groups want to have “physical chastisement by parents” outlawed, to send a clear message that violence in any form is unacceptable.
Professor Gunnoe disagrees with that notion, arguing that parents should have the freedom to use spanking as an occasional disciplinary tool.
“The claims made [against] spanking children fail to hold up. They are not consistent with the data,” said Gunnoe. “…Spanking [is] a dangerous tool, but there are times when there is a job big enough for a dangerous tool. You just don’t use it for all your jobs.”
This is the first study of its kind, because it was difficult to find enough children who had never been spanked, given its past widespread use and cultural acceptability. Gunnoe studied 2,600 people, about a quarter of whom had never been physically punished by spanking.
Politically-incorrect parents around the world can now breathe a collective sigh of relief and admit that they occasionally spanked their children, secure in the knowledge that by doing so, they actually contributed to their children’s future success and happiness.
“Rossini would have been a great composer, if his teacher had spanked him enough on the backside.” Ludwig van Beethoven
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