Effect of Spanking on Children

[Peterkin]

The topic was closed before I could follow this up. Decided it was interesting enough anyway, so here we are:

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They found that children who had been spanked had a higher activity response in the areas of their brain that regulate these emotional responses and detect threats — even to facial expressions that most would consider non-threatening.

article https://www.gse.harvard.edu/news/uk/21/04/effect-spanking-brain

paper https://srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/cdev.13565