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1、Thedebateoverspankinggoesbackmanyyears,buttheessentialquestionoftenevadesdiscussion:doesspankingactuallywork?Intheshortterm,yes.Youcancorrectimmediatemisbehaviorwithaslaportwoontherear-endorhand.Butwhataboutthelong-termimpact?Canspankingleadtopermanent,hiddenscarsonchildrenyearslater?关于打孩子的讨论可以追溯到好多
2、年前，但最本质的问题往往为讨论所回避：打孩子实际上奏效吗？短期来看，是的。你能拍打一两下屁股或者手掌来立即更正孩子们的不守规矩。但长期影响呢？打孩子会在多年后给他们留下永久性的心结么？OnFriday,asociologistfromtheUniversityofNewHampshire,MurrayStraus,presentedapaperattheInternationalConferenceonViolence,AbuseandTrauma,inSanDiego,suggestingthatcorporalpunishmentdoesleavealong-lastingmark—int
3、heformoflowerIQ.Straus,whois83andhasbeenstudyingcorporalpunishmentsince1969,foundthatkidswhowerephysicallypunishedhaduptoafive-pointlowerIQscorethankidswhoweren't—themorechildrenwerespanked,thelowertheirIQ—andthattheeffectcouldbeseennotonlyinindividualchildren,butacrossentirenations.Among32countries
4、Strausstudied,inthosewherespankingwasaccepted,theaverageIQofthesurveypopulationwaslowerthaninnationswherespankingwasrare,theresearchersays.在周五，一位来自新罕普什尔大学的社会学家默里•施特劳斯在圣地亚哥的国际会议上就暴力，虐待和精神创伤发表了一篇论文演说，表示提法确实会留下长久的烙印—表现为低下的智商。今年已经83岁的施特劳斯从1969年便开始研究体罚，发现被体罚的孩子在智商得分上比没有被体罚的孩子低了多达5点—孩子被打得越多，智商越低—这种情况不仅发生在
5、个别孩子身上，而是遍及整个国家。在施特劳斯所研究的32个国家当中，在体罚可以被接受的国家，接受调查人口的平均智商要比体罚罕见的国家的要低，研究者如是说。IntheU.S.,StrausandhiscolleagueMalliePaschallofthePacificInstituteforResearchanduation,lookedat1,510children—806kidsages2to4,and704ages5to9—andfoundthatroughlythree-quartershadenduredsomekindofcorporalpunishmentintheprevious
6、twoweeks,accordingtointerviewswiththemothers.Researchersmeasuredthechildren'sIQinitially,thenagainfouryearslater.Thosekidswhohadn'tbeenspankedintheinitialsurveyperiodscoredsignificantlybetteronintelligenceandachievementteststhanthosewhohadbeenhit.Amongthe2-to-4-year-olds,thedifferenceinIQwasfivepoin
7、ts;amongtheolderkids,therewasa2.8-pointgap.Thatassociationheldaftertakingintoaccountparentaleducation,incomeandotherenvironmentalfactors,saysStraus.在美国，施特劳斯和他来自太平洋研究与评估学会的同事玛丽•帕斯卡尔调查了1510个孩子—806名2到4岁，
