Adrian Peterson spanks own kid, found guilty

[GirlyGymRat]

I was beat once from my dad when i was 8 for stealing 2 bottles of bubbles from the nearby store. but it did me good and i never stole again and never got beat from him again. Valuable lesson learned by the belt. sometimes whippings do work to send a message or prove a point to keep kids in line. but it all has to do with the intensity of the whipper. the kid should not be beat within an inch of their lives. i know one thing that that stupid time out crap does not work. You know when johnny gets in trouble and mom says now johnny you know you are bad and now you have to stand in the corner for a 15 minute time out. we all should have the right to discipline our own children when they get out of line. where the problem lies is when the adult doing the discipline has anger issues and takes it out on their kids. they are the ones who should never ever dole out the discipline but sadly they usually end up being the ones who do.

The amount of bruises and welts indicates daddy has anger issues. For a kid that never gets spanked, a slight hand to a covered bottom is more then sufficient.

[Shol'va]

The amount of bruises and welts indicates daddy has anger issues. For a kid that never gets spanked, a slight hand to a covered bottom is more then sufficient.

Yes GGR dad does indeed have anger issues and sadly the kids pay for it whether it be his own or adopted to him. And sometimes the dad is on a power trip for one reason or another . Either he is short say 5 ft 2 and was picked on a lot in school or whatever. so it makes him feel big by pounding his kids and taking it out on them. Just like the man who beats his wife as he knows he is stronger and she wont fight back so he beat her to feel better about himself. I never understood how that worked. I mean how could he feel better about himself with a wife who has a black eye broken lip and bruised from head to toe all the time and knowing he did it to her? But then she enables him by always making excuses for the bruises by telling all that she is just clumsy and fell down the stairs,etc, instead of just kicking the loser to the curb.

[thisAngelBites]

I find some of the responses on this thread somewhat bizarre. So let me ask some questions, and maybe I can get some clarification.

No one has said anything directly to contradict the studies I mentioned that show that people who were spanked have more anxiety, depression and more anti-social behaviour.

If spanking actually causes more anti-social behaviour, which, if you think about it, is what parents are trying to extinguish, then doesn't that seem it at least does not work all of the time (I'm allowing that perhaps some times it works)? And cause mental health difficulties as well?

And for the people who are defending their parents' physically hurting them (and perhaps their treating their children similarly), let me pose this question: if hurting people is such an excellent way of teaching them, why don't we continue with the teaching by hurting adults when they do things that are wrong, or when we feel they could learn something?

[evander87]

No one has said anything directly to contradict the studies I mentioned that show that people who were spanked have more anxiety, depression and more anti-social behaviour. ?

Post links to these studies and other links will be posted refuting those studies. That's the glory of the innerwebs all sorts of information for any argument.

Eat meticulous, train ridiculous for best results.

[GirlyGymRat]

Post links to these studies and other links will be posted refuting those studies. That's the glory of the innerwebs all sorts of information for any argument. Eat meticulous, train ridiculous for best results.

there are plenty of studies that can refute other findings and most members only read and post studies that support their preconceived position or ignore those that don't support their own personal experiences.

With that said, I have not read any supporting documents that abused children are not more likely to have emotional trama and less likely to not become abusers themselves as adults. Also I haven't bothered to investigate studies of children who have never been struck and that they r less or more likely to be abusive parents.

[thisAngelBites]

With that said, I have not read any supporting documents that abused children are not more likely to have emotional trama and less likely to not become abusers themselves as adults. Also I haven't bothered to investigate studies of children who have never been struck and that they r less or more likely to be abusive parents.

I had another look today, and although I can find what appears to be hundreds of studies showing concern about the negative effects of spanking, there are only a few (I think four or less) that say spanking does not have undesired effects or is good for children. One of the studies that those people relied on repeatedly actually seemed to show that the positive effect of spanking was that it allowed parents to vent their frustration at their children's behaviour, and only benefited children indirectly because when parents were able to blow off steam on smaller spankings, they were less likely to be abusive towards their children later. And I would definitely prefer spankings to abuse, but it's an odd justification of spanking that it does not help children directly, but just helps minimise abuse.

Even the few researchers who defend spanking think there should be a lot less of it than there is, and worry about how it escalates to more serious violence. I saw a page at the American Psychological Association where they say that the evidence against spanking just doesn't get through to parents.

[GirlyGymRat]

I had another look today, and although I can find what appears to be hundreds of studies showing concern about the negative effects of spanking, there are only a few (I think four or less) that say spanking does not have undesired effects or is good for children. One of the studies that those people relied on repeatedly actually seemed to show that the positive effect of spanking was that it allowed parents to vent their frustration at their children's behaviour, and only benefited children indirectly because when parents were able to blow off steam on smaller spankings, they were less likely to be abusive towards their children later. And I would definitely prefer spankings to abuse, but it's an odd justification of spanking that it does not help children directly, but just helps minimise abuse. Even the few researchers who defend spanking think there should be a lot less of it than there is, and worry about how it escalates to more serious violence. I saw a page at the American Psychological Association where they say that the evidence against spanking just doesn't get through to parents.

If repeated spankings were so effective then why they repeated? From what I read, some members clarify the rare spanking or belting. But I don't have children and can't so it's really not my concern.

Although when a parent starts whaling on a kid at the store (which rarely happens) and the parent has crossed that boundary to lacking composure, there are a lot of others stepping forward who r much bigger then me. Most 'beatings' don't occur in public.