The Yes Vote - NZ Referendum on Child Discipline 2009 » zolotor http://yesvote.org.nz Fri, 16 Mar 2012 02:49:46 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://yesvote.org.nz http://yesvote.org.nz//files/2009/05/favicon.ico The Yes Vote - NZ Referendum on Child Discipline 2009 Study links smacking to physical abuse http://yesvote.org.nz/2009/04/19/study-links-smacking-to-physical-abuse/ http://yesvote.org.nz/2009/04/19/study-links-smacking-to-physical-abuse/#comments Sun, 19 Apr 2009 04:41:41 +0000 The Yes Vote Team http://yesvote.org.nz/?p=337 In a study published by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in August 2008, mothers who reported that they or their partner spanked their child in the past year were nearly three times more likely to state that they also used harsher forms of punishment than those who say their child was not spanked.

Such punishments included behaviors considered physically abusive by the researchers, such as beating, burning, kicking, hitting with an object somewhere other than the buttocks, or shaking a child less than 2 years old.

“In addition, increases in the frequency of spanking are associated with increased odds of abuse, and mothers who report spanking on the buttocks with an object – such as a belt or a switch – are nine times more likely to report abuse, compared to mothers who report no spanking with an object,” said Adam J. Zolotor, M.D., the study’s lead author and an assistant professor in the department of family medicine in the UNC School of Medicine.

[kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/rPFz2n1Qt7I" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /]]]> In a study published by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in August 2008, mothers who reported that they or their partner spanked their child in the past year were nearly three times more likely to state that they also used harsher forms of punishment than those who say their child was not spanked.

Such punishments included behaviors considered physically abusive by the researchers, such as beating, burning, kicking, hitting with an object somewhere other than the buttocks, or shaking a child less than 2 years old.

“In addition, increases in the frequency of spanking are associated with increased odds of abuse, and mothers who report spanking on the buttocks with an object – such as a belt or a switch – are nine times more likely to report abuse, compared to mothers who report no spanking with an object,” said Adam J. Zolotor, M.D., the study’s lead author and an assistant professor in the department of family medicine in the UNC School of Medicine.

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