Oh and just for shits and giggles the most interesting thing about this issue was that in the article itself it says that 80% of people in the world spank their children.
The majority of the world also believes in deities. The majority of the world doesn't know what the hell they are talking about.
Not to mention, there was a time when the majority of the world thought the world was flat and drank unpurified, unfiltered water.
The point is that the majority do not have children who have mental disorders as the science presented seems to suggest would happen if there were an actual causal relationship of spanking to mental disorders.
That isn't as all what the science presents. Yeah, that's a possibility I guess, but they also say it just isn't very effective. ---
