On Mon, 11 Oct 1999, Ron Blue wrote:
>
>
> Canadian study links spanking to psychiatric disorders
> http://biz.yahoo.com/rf/991005/bbx.html
> (Yahoo News, October 5) Children spanked by their parents are twice as
> likely
> to develop drug and alcohol problems in adulthood, according to a
> Canadian
> study released on Tuesday. The study found that those who were spanked
> or
> slapped had
> increased rates of anxiety disorders, anti-social behavior and
> depression.
Ex-post facto
were the two groups randomly assigned to punishment and non-punishment
groups?
did the researchers had control of the levels of the independent
variables?
I was under the impression that correlation does not mean causation.
Michael Sylvester
Daytona Beach,Florida
