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Corporal punishment and pampering parents?

In year 2006, a poll was conducted on Americans with kids under 18 living with them. This was what they found out:
- the strictest parents attend church weekly (identified as conservative)
- the least strict parents are younger
- men are little stricter than women
- 52% of parents think it's better to guide children with "discipline and structure"
- more than half say it's important to make children a better citizens

However, 90% say today parents are too easy on their kids. It all starts from infant: should babies be comforted whenever they cry? Or allow them to cry it out so they learn how to sleep? The former has 60% of agreement.

Here's another poll question:
Suppose you had a 9-year-old son/daughter who screamed a cursed word at you and said he/she hated you. What would be your likely response?
(1) Sit down and ask why he/she feels that way?
(2) Tell him/her that you're sorry he/she feels that way, but you love him/her anyway.
(3) Smack him/her.

Of course the third response has the lowest, as he/she was only 9.

Suppose you had a 15-year-old son/daughter and you found out he/she was experimenting illegal drugs. What would be your likely response?

Spare the rod and spoil the child OR have a good heart-to-heart talk?

Note: The governments of Japan, China, Thailand, Taiwan and Malaysia have all told teachers to spare the rod and resort to alternative punishment instead. In 1994, Singapore had publicly beat a 18-year-old for vandalizing few cars.

Statistics excerpt from Microtrends
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