Clifton Flynn did his research study on the different attitudes of spanking in college students from the south and northeast. Surveys were distributed among the students asking their experiences of getting spanked, their evaluations of their punishments, and their attitudes toward spanking. Over 90% of American parents spank their children and are in favor of spanking their children (Flynn, 1994; Straus, 1991; Wauchope and Straus, 1990). Most studies of spanking in the past rely on parents ' reports of spanking and effects from spanking. College students are able to recall events from their past much quicker since their memories of spanking were only a few years ago as opposed to adults where it could be decades when they were spanked (Flynn,
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The students also could have imagined their experiences being more negative and dramatic than it really was. Another consideration to be made is the views of both regions. The south tends to be more conservative and Christian. The South has also grown up in a culture where it is more acceptable to spank from the passage in the Bible about how parents that love their children will discipline them with the rod. In the north east, it the region is more liberal and will tend to think of spanking as a form of physical abuse. I think that the reason there are less behaved children in America is because they do not spank their children or not enough. Spanking is not used to abuse a child, but to discipline a child. After a spanking, the parent needs to tell the child what they did wrong, and that they spanked them because they love …show more content…
There were 25 less students from the University of New Hampshire than the University of South Carolina. There also should have been a count of the number of females and males in the study. If that is not included the results will be inaccurate due to the unequal number of females and males. The study also expected that the attitudes and behavior of from the culture and socioeconomic factors. I do think that the attitudes are influenced from the culture, but I do not think that it depends on how much money or how much education the parent has in order to spank a child. If they wanted to test that they should have another study focusing on how education and money influences a parent to spank instead of assuming that they spank without evidence. They cannot expect something if they cannot prove it in the
The students also could have imagined their experiences being more negative and dramatic than it really was. Another consideration to be made is the views of both regions. The south tends to be more conservative and Christian. The South has also grown up in a culture where it is more acceptable to spank from the passage in the Bible about how parents that love their children will discipline them with the rod. In the north east, it the region is more liberal and will tend to think of spanking as a form of physical abuse. I think that the reason there are less behaved children in America is because they do not spank their children or not enough. Spanking is not used to abuse a child, but to discipline a child. After a spanking, the parent needs to tell the child what they did wrong, and that they spanked them because they love …show more content…
There were 25 less students from the University of New Hampshire than the University of South Carolina. There also should have been a count of the number of females and males in the study. If that is not included the results will be inaccurate due to the unequal number of females and males. The study also expected that the attitudes and behavior of from the culture and socioeconomic factors. I do think that the attitudes are influenced from the culture, but I do not think that it depends on how much money or how much education the parent has in order to spank a child. If they wanted to test that they should have another study focusing on how education and money influences a parent to spank instead of assuming that they spank without evidence. They cannot expect something if they cannot prove it in the