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Spanking Linked to Increase in Children's Behavior Problems
November 16, 2017
WASHINGTON, Nov. 17 -- The Association for Psychological Science issued the following news:

Children who have been spanked by their parents by age 5 show an increase in behavior problems at age 6 and age 8 relative to children who have never been spanked, according to new findings in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science.

The study, which uses a statistical technique to approximate random assignment, indicates that this increase i . . .

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