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Spanking Linked to Aggression in Young Children (www.psychiatryonline.org)
By TERRI D'ARRIGO Published Online: 27 May 2021 Spanking has effects on early childhood behavior similar to those of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) such as physical or emotional abuse or neglect, parental mental illness, parental substance use, and others, a study in the Journal of Pediatrics has found. Children’s exposure to spanking and ACEs when they were age 3 had statistically indistinguishable associations with externalizing behaviors at age 5, such as destroying their own...