SPANKING CHILDREN CAN LOWER THEIR IQ

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Boston (DbTechNo) - Results of two new studies suggest that children who are spanked when they are bad may have lower IQs than their peers. Murray Straus, from the University of New Hampshire, studied national IQ test scores of more than 1,500 kids between the ages of 2 and 9. Their score results four years after initial testing revealed that children between the ages of 2 and 4 who were not spanked scored an average of 5 points higher than those who were spanked. Children between ages 5 and 9 who were not spanked scored nearly 3 points higher, on average. Researchers found that spanking is associated with a lower IQ.

Those children whose mothers reported spanking as a way of discipline were found on average to have a slightly lower IQ than children not spanked. The study was presented at the Institute on Violence, Abuse and Trauma (IVAT), at Alliant International University, in San Diego. In the other study, researchers analyzed intelligence data from various countries, and made the same finding, those children spanked as a form of discipline had lower IQs than those children not spanked.

WHAT DO THE VEDIC TEACHINGS TELL US?

In the system of varnāśrama-dharma, which is the beginning of actual human life, small boys after five years of age are sent to become brahmacārī at the guru's āśrama, where these things are systematically taught to boys, be they king's sons or sons of ordinary citizens. The training was compulsory not only to create good citizens of the state, but also to prepare the boy's future life for spiritual realization. ... Both the father and the mother were responsible for the boy's success in being liberated from the material bondage.

Srila A.C. BV Swami Prabhupada:
"The Srimad Bhagavatam - Purport in Canto 1 - Chapter 5 - Verse 24"