Psychologists overwhelmingly agree that the practice of spanking children as a form of discipline is linked to a myriad of long-term problems including increased aggression, lowered IQ, brain damage (affecting speech, muscular control, emotions, and memory), depression, hostility towards authority figures, anxiety, substance dependency, and doesn't even reduce the behavior that's being punished. Spanking children is abuse. Please outlaw this horrendous practice.
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