Externalizing Behavior In Children

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Spanking is serious issues in the United States. Some researchers believe spanking children causes externalizing behavior. The more children display aggressive behavior the more likely, the disciplined. This article examines the transactional connection between spanking and the externalizing (negative) behavior through the early years of a child’s life. In other words children aggressiveness from birth to middle childhood depends on how often they will receive a spanking. However, some theory claims that there should be a transitional association between the parent’s correction and children’s externalize behavior through transition to adulthood. The study of spanking over the past decades has proof that corporal punishment is later connected

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