...Spanking is thought to be a worldwide phenomenon. Beginning with our primate relatives, we review their hitting of offspring. Historical baggage, behaviors humans continue long after the usefulness is lost, is considered as a possibility for spanking’s continuance. Around the world, the buttocks...

... what most would call a spanking w ith my two daughters was when they were around 2 and 4 years old. I was in the kitchen, frantically answering the phone and getting dinner ready at the same time before their dad got home from work to tag-t eam parental duties with me, so I could race out the door...

...Since the 1970s there has been a simultaneous growth of religious revivalist notions of spanking and of spanking research. Anchored by the work of Murray Straus and James Dobson, two influential men with very different perspectives, the chapter explores the efforts, evidence, and effectiveness...