Child-spanking at age 5 may have a detrimental effect on child externalising behaviour and cognitive development at age 9

摘要

The use of corporal punishment, despite repeated caution from health professionals and developmental researchers, persists as a widespread parenting strategy in the USA. As Mackenzie and colleagues note, the prevalence of spanking by American parents appears surprising when one considers the litany of studies linking corporal punishment with deleterious outcomes across the life course. Mackenzie and colleagues extended this body of research by examining the association between the use of corporal punishment and the development of receptive vocabulary skills and externalising problems in childhood during the first decade of life.