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Don't hit your kids
Filed under: Health & Safety: Babies
Add this to this list of reasons that smacking your kid around makes you a horrible person. Not only does child abuse effect a mental health well into adulthood, but a recent study has found that children who suffer abuse have an increased risk of poor physical health as well.
Researchers followed 1,000 people from birth to age 32. Along with monitoring the participants as children, the researchers also asked those involved -- at age 26 -- to recall any abuse they had suffered during their youth.
A third of those who reported maltreatment were found to have high levels of inflammation -- a condition known to predict the development of conditions like heart disease and diabetes. This coincides with previous studies that have suggested that stress early in life can reduce levels of glucorticoid -- a hormone that combats inflammation.
So don't hit your kids. And if you know of someone that is, report them.
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1-17-2007 @ 8:21PM
Michele W said...I am one that believes there is a HUGE difference between spanking a kid and abusing a kid. I am 30 and when I was growing up I knew better to do things. My grandmother was great for the wooden spoon. When she started counting we were there before 3 or we knew our butt was hers. Though I can say very few ever got it my two uncles ( her sons ) did when they would start fighting and wrestling and really were all out fighting my grandmother actually got the broom after them. They were huge grandmother small makes sense to me. Kids today have no disipline and don't or are not held acounttable for what they do. I believe the day you were not alloud to spank your kid was the day all hell let loose. Back then you never heard of school shooting or kids bringing stuff to school or even so much violence from kids. I am not saying it didn't happen but I know for sure it was alot less. I have a 5 year old son and I have tried the time outs and he would sit there all day. Send him to his room and he was happy. I either have to yell or just say do you smacked and he listens. He has got swatted on the butt but not very often. Just like when I was little I knew not to do anything or I would be in deep crap. Kids today are not afraid of anything they run all over thier parents. You hit them they call cys and say you abused them. That is thier weapon is that they know they can do no wrong. They get in trouble the parents pay the fine not the kid and oh lets talk about these correctional centers. Bowling alleys, TV's in every room, video games you name it they got it. Don't sound too bad to me or them. Not all of them are like that but alot sure are. I had a friend at work her son was drag racing and was on the incoming traffic lane. Hit a lady head on and killed her. This spot was known for kids to race yet no one there to make sure it don't happen. He gets sentenced to a correctional place and in the court the judge was just amazed that he had no remorse for what he did. Didn't feel bad at all. mother goes to visit and oh wait we will page him he is bowling right now. Yes this place had a bowling alley a little movie theater sort of thing. TV's in every room, cable. Through his whole stay he did not learn one thing. At the end he still had no sorry feelings for what he had done. If they are old enough to do it they are old enough to do the time. Kids today rule instead of the parent. This needs to be changed and parents need to get thier athourity back.
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