Beating the Devil Out of Them: Corporal Punishment in American Families and Its Effects on Children
"A comprehensive expose of the corporal punishment controversy by an eminent scholar. Straus provides the long needed scientific evidence linking corporal punishment to subsequent violence and other adult problems. This book gives major new importance and credibility to the uphill effort to end corporal punishment of chil­dren." —Adrienne Ahlgren Haeuser, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee"Murray Straus has exposed 'the best kept secret of American child psychology': hitting kids is the dark force in family life. Just as smoking was accepted a generation ago, corporal punishment is still okay in polite society. However, like smoking, hitting emerges as a destructive anti-social act with serious costs to public health." —James Garbarino, Cornell University