May 4, 2016
Associate Professor Andrew Grogan-Kaylor’s recently published a meta-analysis examining the research on spanking and its effects on children which has been cited in numerous media outlets. These include:
- featured in The Telegraph article, “Why you should never spank a child - major research project confirms dangers”
- featured in The Boston Globe article, “Spanking your kid is about as harmful as child abuse, says study”
- cited in the ScienceDaily article, “Risks of harm from spanking confirmed by analysis of 5 decades of research”
- featured in the Good Morning America segment, “New Report Says Spanking May Be Linked to Lifelong Social, Mental Health Problems in Kids”
- featured in the National Public Radio (WEMU) 89.1 interview, “Decades Of Study Say Spanking Does More Harm Than Good”
- featured in The Atlantic article, “The Strong Evidence Against Spanking”
- featured in the Telemundo article, “Estudio: Nalgadas no son buenas para disciplinar”
- featured in the U.S. News & World Report article, “Don’t Spank Your Kids, Says 50 Years of Research”
- cited in the Le Monde article, "La France est-elle prête à interdire la fessée?"
- cited in The Washington Post article, “Video of Georgia school paddling puts spotlight on corporal punishment”
- cited in the Vox article, “Parents have been spanking children for millennia. 50 years of scientific evidence says they were wrong.”
- cited in the Scientific American article, “What Science Says －and Doesn’t －about Spanking: Are kids being spanked for acting out or acting out because they’re spanked?”
