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david packard share had david packard dot com new study in pediatrics finds
that physical punishment increases the risk
of mental disorders later on in life
even when the physical punishment isn't quite hard enough to
he considered child abuse this is interesting
from the american academy of pediatrics which is opposed to physical punishment
uh... we now see studies that are saying
eighty percent
of parents reported they were alive on physical punishment to some extent
so what is physical punishment it's kind of wide-ranging everything to a light
slack too
um... an all-out with being with a belt or a paddle all of those things are of
course considered physical punishment so but tracy athey fee is the author of
this new study sheet as an assistant professor in the department of community
health sciences
at the university of manitoba in canada
and uh... she in some colleagues wanted to focus on five
forms of physical punishment pushing grabbing shoving slapping
and hitting
so uh...
the these are the ones that you work that she did not include spanking
because it's
kind of hard to define for the purposes of this study
is uh... what's what is spanking to one parent isn't necessarily to another
but the did those doing the research said pushes a push
a grab is a grabs dot so this was done
uh... the study was done with
twenty thousand people were analyzed in the u_s_ who were aged twenty or older
twelve hundred and fifty had experienced pushing grabbing shoving slapping
hitting
sometimes are very often about twenty thousand said the experience that uh...
rarely or never
they adjusted results for gender
race marital status as a case shin family histories of dysfunction if the
parents had drug problems had already been hospitalized for mental illnesses
so that there have been genetic factors
etcetera
what are the results i'm not surprised by the maybe you're surprised by the
lowest
people who experienced physical punishment
were more likely to experience almost every type of mental illness examined
bob mood disorders
depression mania
one point five times more prevalent and those who who
uh... of they had been physically punish than those who had not risk of
depression
one point four times greater
risk of anxiety one point four times greater people who have been physically
punish were also one point six times more likely to abuse alcohol
and one point five or ten times more likely to abuse drugs now we often
question on this show
correlation and causation and say well there may be something that's not being
accounted for here which could really be the factor
what do you guys think about this one i'm not finding anything that strikes me
as our views that would
disconnect here some kind of uh... of of causation
if this is a direct connection then
uh... are not shocked
sounds about right to me
the other issue we have here is a political on because as we know
authoritarian parenting which is way more uh... blue more likely to include
physical punishment is often done by conservatives and also leads to those
children being conservative later in life summit on this is a pretty
interesting study overall based on on what it says but also based on the
broader implications
right and there's a little ambiguity you in the same way that there was with the
other case you mentioned just in the sense that we don't know
if it's this specific thing
that parents are doing that's causing the mentor mostly ronan laughed or if
it's just that
parents saying gage in that sort of
punishment of their children are more likely to do all other things as yet
unidentified that might lead them to later on in life be mentally ill 'cause
we're really talking about here is the the mental component the emotional and
mental component
heating your child out not the physical aspect of it so
i would assume that there are other uh... there is you know probably mental
emotional abuse happening to you
at least it would be more likely yet