Spanking Makes Kids Dumb?
A new study claims that the more a child is spanked, the lower his IQ is. My first thought when I heard the study was that perhaps the child with the lower IQ was less obedient and that is why they got more spankings. The study also claims to refute that point. For the life of me, I can’t imagine how hitting a child on the butt removes smart cells from his brain. The whole study just seems very peculiar. According to a MSNBC article on the subject, “Straus and his colleague Mallie Paschall of the Pacific Institute for Research … Continue reading