This lesson can be valuable for your whole family. The question of whether or not parents should spank their children is not easy to answer. However, spanking is only one of the factors that needs to be considered in the overall discipline process. For More Information American Academy of Pediatrics. A comparison of northeastern and southern college students.
Southern parents spank children more than northern parents, study finds.
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