He who spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him is careful to discipline him.
— Proverbs 13:24Withhold not correction from a child: for if thou strike him with the rod, he shall not die. Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and deliver his soul from hell.
— Proverbs 23:13-14Humanism in your world has been created by satan. You will bring back the adages of old of: Spare the rod, and you will spoil the child. Discipline must be returned to the homes.
— St. Joachim, July 25, 1973
Children who are spanked have lower IQs than those who aren’t. This finding was presented by Murray Straus, a professor at University of New Hampshire, at the 14th International Conference on Violence, Abuse and Trauma, in California. “How often parents spanked made a difference,” said Straus. “The more spanking the, the slower the development of the child’s mental ability. But even small amounts of spanking made a difference.”
Like many cruelties, the practice of corporal punishment to discipline children was perpetuated by benevolent Christians using the Bible as justification. This is not surprising, considering they also believe that a perfectly benevolent father would allow his beloved children to be tortured in Hell for all eternity, as punishment for not believing in his favorite beloved son, whom he also sent to be tortured and killed.
Needless to say, for people to acquire belief in these absurdities, they need the naivety of youth and a really low IQ. Which probably explains Sunday school and all the child-spanking.
i suppose you weren't spanked when you were a child red? "but he who loves him is careful to discipline him"-that quote is the wisdom in it. spank your child but be wise enough to not abuse him. in my family and relatives, we were mostly spanked when we did something wrong and we turned out smarter and more disciplined later in life. i wonder why….
I must say however that I'm still quite skeptical as to how results and findings are arrived at in some areas of social sciences, including this one. It's usually hard to pinpoint that something causes that/those things, even with hundreds or even thousands of experiment participants are involved. Lots of factors, such as the fidelity of the participants to their answers, their emotional and psychological states, and so on.
What I'm getting at here is that what seems to be apparently causal i.e. less spanking = higher IQ and the opposite is true, may not be so at all. These things could in fact merely be correlated, and not causally related. Imagine if someone where to say that one's IQ is linked to the size of his/her feet, since after all most humans get smarter from childhood to adulthood, in the same manner as their feet grow in size.
In other words, I'm trying to promote a more skeptical and free outlook of researches, their implementation, and their results. Not trying to antagonize anybody. 🙂
Perhaps I should write a post about this in the future, here and in my blog, and how it relates to irrational beliefs and so on.
What the study did not cover – but I'd like to see more data for – is how excessive spanking contributes to today's overachievers.
Both Jackie Chan and late Michael Jackson, for example, attribute their success to abusive mentors; MJ via his father, and Jackie by way of his Chinese Acrobatics instructor when he and Sammo Hung were still students.