There’s always been great controversy over spanking children, but now there are new studies that find there are even more dangers that come when you spank your kids. This report concludes that children who are spanked are more prone to violent relationships as adults. It seems that kids correlate violence to love when it is something that they experience as children, and so seek it in their partner when they begin their search for love.

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