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If it were an effective strategy, you would either see no correlation between spanking and child behavior, or you would see a correlation that's the opposite of what you do see, what you see is a positive correlation between spanking and higher levels of behavior problems. If it were effective you should see the opposite. – Rebecca Ryan	Found on CNN 5 years ago
Nobody has randomly assigned children to receive different types of parenting or different types of discipline strategies, per se. ... So it's difficult for anybody to say spanking a child causes that child later on to be more aggressive, even though there are theories to suggest that could be why the correlation exists, although all the evidence is correlational, there's little correlational evidence that it's an effective strategy, and if it were effective, Rebecca Ryan should see correlational evidence. – Rebecca Ryan	Found on CNN 5 years ago
I think about the close-knit confines of judicial chambers, you have a brand-spanking-new lawyer out of law school...( who) regards the federal judge that he or she works for as part of the pantheon of demigods. – Matt Cartwright	Found on CNN 6 years ago
So that’s a tricky thing when you’re out in public, ’cause then people are like, you know, they think that’s wrong or something, but I find nothing wrong with a spanking. – Kelly Clarkson	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
Was Secretary Clinton awake or asleep when four Americans were being murdered? We don't know to this day, we do know Hillary told her daughter Chelsea, 'Well gosh, I knew it was a terrorist attack,' while we were out telling the American people it wasn't. You know, I'll tell you, in my house, if my daughter Catherine, the 5-year-old, says something she knows to be false, she gets a spanking. – Texas Sen. Ted Cruz	Found on CNN 8 years ago
No one knows how I felt when I turned Adrian Peterson child around after spanking him and seeing what I had left on his leg, No one knows that Dad sat there and apologized to him, hugged him and told him that I didn't mean to do this to you and how sorry I was. – Adrian Peterson	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory. – Will Durant	added by anonymous 10 years ago

If it were an effective strategy, you would either see no correlation between spanking and child behavior, or you would see a correlation that's the opposite of what you do see, what you see is a positive correlation between spanking and higher levels of behavior problems. If it were effective you should see the opposite.

– Rebecca Ryan

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Nobody has randomly assigned children to receive different types of parenting or different types of discipline strategies, per se. ... So it's difficult for anybody to say spanking a child causes that child later on to be more aggressive, even though there are theories to suggest that could be why the correlation exists, although all the evidence is correlational, there's little correlational evidence that it's an effective strategy, and if it were effective, Rebecca Ryan should see correlational evidence.

– Rebecca Ryan

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I think about the close-knit confines of judicial chambers, you have a brand-spanking-new lawyer out of law school...( who) regards the federal judge that he or she works for as part of the pantheon of demigods.

– Matt Cartwright

Found on CNN
6 years ago

So that’s a tricky thing when you’re out in public, ’cause then people are like, you know, they think that’s wrong or something, but I find nothing wrong with a spanking.

– Kelly Clarkson

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Was Secretary Clinton awake or asleep when four Americans were being murdered? We don't know to this day, we do know Hillary told her daughter Chelsea, 'Well gosh, I knew it was a terrorist attack,' while we were out telling the American people it wasn't. You know, I'll tell you, in my house, if my daughter Catherine, the 5-year-old, says something she knows to be false, she gets a spanking.

– Texas Sen. Ted Cruz

Found on CNN
8 years ago

No one knows how I felt when I turned Adrian Peterson child around after spanking him and seeing what I had left on his leg, No one knows that Dad sat there and apologized to him, hugged him and told him that I didn't mean to do this to you and how sorry I was.

– Adrian Peterson

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.

– Will Durant

added by anonymous
10 years ago

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