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>>I grew up in the mid-1970s and at least where I was >>growing up spanking was quite common back then. My >>best guesstimate based on all the mentions from other >>kids such as friends, neighbors, cousins, at school or >>summer camp and sometimes adults too is that when I >>was middle-school age, of all the boys I knew perhaps >>about a half were spanked several times a year, and by >>spanking I mean a formal bare-bottom spanking with >>belt or similar, a small minority maybe 10% were >>spanked more often than that, another minority perhaps >>10-20% never spanked at all or so they said, and the >>remaining kids were spanked just occasionally. This is >>my best gauging for boys, I do not know about girls >>since spankings were not the subject a boy would >>discuss with a girl or vice versa. Also, sometimes at >>a family gathering a grown up could mention about some >>boy (a cousin or other relation) that he got a >>spanking, but I do not remember ever hearing this >>being said about a girl. >> >>I did not have older friends so cannot tell how it was >>earlier, such as 10 year before my time. >> >>My best meter about how things stood 10 year later in >>the mid-1980s is from extended family and a few >>mentions by friends who had younger sibs, and the best >>I can gather is that spankings still happened but >>appeared to become quite less common than when I was a >>kid. >> >>So my guess is that there was some appreciable >>drop-off somewhere in the early 80s, at least in my >>neighborhood, or so it seems. >> >>What was your experience and memories? >> >>When do you feel parental spanking at home started to >>become much less common than before? >It really isn't, as far as I'm aware. I was born in >the 90's. Everyone I grew up with got spanked. The >sentiment that every now and again a child needs a >spanking has maybe dropped a few percentage points, as >those who weren't spanked tend not to spank and some >who were spanked don't, but it's still probably a >majority. > >There's been a fair amount of longitudinal studies on >the effects of corporal punishment and most I've >looked at paint a picture that the consequences aren't >worth short term obedience. Invariably, some claim >they turned out alright. I'm just positing why it >might be slightly less common.

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