kirakitten13 replied to your link “Spanking does more harm than good | University of Michigan News”
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2001/08/25/us/findings-give-some-support-to-advocates-of-spanking.html "Dr. Larzelere said that he advocated ''conditional, nonabusive'' spanking, which he defined as ''two open-handed swats, not out of control due to anger'' as a backup for children between the ages of 2 and 6." "Dr. Baumrind argued that, without compelling evidence that spanking is harmful, parents shouldbe free to rear their children in accordance with their own values..."
So the article you are posting is 1) From 2001, while the study I am citing is from 2016 and is a metastudy of the past 50 years of data. and 2) The opinion of one “ Conservative Christian psychologist”, while mine is, again, a meta study of over 50 years of data.
