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- Title
CHILD, MATERNAL, AND FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS ASSOCIATED WITH SPANKING.
- Authors
Giles-Sims, Jean; Straus, Murray A.; Sugarman, David B.
- Abstract
The article presents data on frequency and distribution of spanking as corporal punishment by mothers in the 1990 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY), carried in the United States. The NLSY data included indicators for each of the child, maternal, and family characteristics. The findings suggest that more than 61% of mothers of 3- to 5-year-old children spanked them in the past week, with a mean of about three times that week. For 6- to 9-year-olds, the one-week prevalence rate declines by almost half to just over a third, with a mean of about two spankings that week. It also suggests that the rate of spanking for 3- to 5-year-olds is higher for children living in poverty, or whose mothers were not employed at least 40 weeks in the year. The study indicates that prevalence and chronicity rates of spanking 3- to 5- year-old children vary by several child, maternal, and family characteristics after controlling for socioeconomic status. Mothers of lower age, lower income, lower overall socioeconomic status, and those who were employed less frequently reported higher prevalence and chronicity rates.
- Subjects
CORPORAL punishment; SURVEYS; SOCIAL surveys; MOTHER-child relationship; DISCIPLINE of children; SOCIAL status; POOR children
- Publication
Family Relations, 1995, Vol 44, Issue 2, p170
- ISSN
0197-6664
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/584804