2nd Edition
Beating the Devil Out of Them Corporal Punishment in American Children
By Valerie Bentz
Copyright 2001
354 Pages
by
Routledge
354 Pages
by
Routledge
317 Pages
by
Routledge
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Based on his studies of over 9,000 families, Murray A. Straus, the foremost researcher on family violence in the world, discusses the extent to which parents in the United States use corporal punishment (such as spanking and slapping) and its effects on their chil-dren. The question of whether corporal punishment is an effective method of discipline is hotly debated. Straus contends that this... Read more
I: Spanking—The Virtuous Violence; 1: The Conspiracy of Silence; 2: Everyone Does It, But Less Now; 3: Hitting Adolescents; 4: Who Spanks the Most?; II: The Price of Virtue; 5: Depression and Suicide; 6: Physical Abuse; 7: Violence and Crime; 8: The Fusion of Sex and Violence; 9: Alienation and Reduced Income; III: The Future; 10: Ten Myths That Perpetuate Corporal Punishment; 11: Social revolution and Corporal Punishment; 12: The Benefits of Never Spanking: New and More Definitive Evidence
Biography
Denise Donnelly, Murray Straus
