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Kathy
Whilst I've not seen references to new research on this and missed it on
Lactnet, Irwin A Hyman in The Case Against Spanking, refers to Strauss'
book, Beating the devil out of them: Corporal punishment in America.
Lexington Books. 1994.
More interestingly, he gives the email address of the National Center for
the Study of Corporal Punishment and Alternatives, as
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for a publication list
Hyman's book is a good read.
Jan Cornfoot [log in to unmask]
Editor, Birth Issues
CAPERS Bookstore
Brisbane, Australia
> Several of them mention some new
> research from University of New Hampshire showing that children spanking
may
> damage a child's motivation to learn, lower his/her IQ, and interfere
with
> cognitive development. They don't list the original source. I was not
able
> to track the original citation down on Medline. Does anyone know where
this
> research was published -- as in, a scientific journal? The lead author
is
> Murray Strauss. Thanks.
>
> Kathy Dettwyler
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