➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ:
US: Risks of Harm from Spanking Confirmed by Analysis of Five Decades of Research
UT News – April 25, 2016
The more children are spanked, the more likely they are to defy their parents and to experience increased anti-social behavior, aggression, mental health problems and cognitive difficulties, according to a new meta-analysis of 50 years of research on spanking by experts at The University of Texas at Austin and the University of Michigan.
http://news.utexas.edu/2016/04/25/risks-of-harm-from-spanking-confirmed-by-researchers