دانلود کتاب Beating the devil out of them - Corporal punishment in American families

Based on his studies of over nine-thousand families, Murray A. Straus, the foremost researcher on family violence in the world, describes in this long-awaited book the extent to which parents in the United States use corporal punishment (such as spanking and slapping) and its effects on their children.

The question of whether corporal punishment is an effective method of discipline is hotly debated by parents, teachers, and childrearing experts. In his most important book ever, Straus contends that this believed-to-be-"minor" form of physical violence is the precursor to much of the violence that plagues our world.

Children who are spanked quickly learn that love and violence can go hand in hand. Since spanking is generally done by loving, caring parents - for the child's own good - a child can learn that hitting is "morally right". Straus shows us what he has learned through two decades of research: that children who are spanked are from two to six times more likely to be physically aggressive, to become juvenile delinquents, and later, as adults, to use physical violence againts their spouses, to have sadomasochistic tendencies, and to suffer from depression.

Parents do not realize that they put their child at risk of theses serious side effects when they spank. Straus alerts parents to these risks, and reveals that spanking is a form of violence that adversely affects not only the children who are subjected to it but society as a whole.

This groundbreaking book is a must read for all parents as well as teachers, lawyers, judges, and professionals in fields such as social work, child protection, delinquency and criminology, psychology, and politics. Putting an end to spanking, Straus concludes, is one of the most important steps that can be taken in our quest for a less violent world.