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The Impact of the Corporeal Punishment Upon Student’s Sense of Pride Disciplining young children is one of the key jobs of a

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问题           The Impact of the Corporeal Punishment Upon Student’s Sense of Pride
    Disciplining young children is one of the key jobs of any parent—most people would have no trouble agreeing with that. But whether or not that discipline should include spanking or other forms of corporal punishment is a far trickier issue.
    Now researchers at Tulane University provide the strongest evidence yet against the use of spanking: of the nearly 2,500 youngsters in the study, those who were spanked more frequently at age 3 were more likely to be aggressive by age 5. The research supports earlier work on the pitfalls of corporal punishment, including a study by Duke University researchers that revealed that infants who were spanked at 12 months scored lower on cognitive tests at age 3.
    Led by Catherine Taylor, the Tulane study was the first to control simultaneously for variables that are most likely to confound the association between spanking and later aggressive behavior. The researchers accounted for factors such as acts of neglect by the mother, violence or aggression between the parents, maternal stress and depression, the mother’s use of alcohol and drugs, and even whether the mother considered abortion while pregnant with the child.
    Each of these factors contributed to children’s aggressive behavior at age 5, but they could not explain all of the violent tendencies at that age. Further, the positive connection between spanking and aggression remained strong, even after these factors had been accounted for.
    " The odds of a child being more aggressive at age 5 if he had been spanked more than twice in the month before the study began increased by 50% ," says Taylor. And because her group also accounted for varying levels of natural aggression in children, the researchers are confident that " it’s not just that children who are more aggressive are more likely to be spanked".
    What the study, published Monday in the journal Pediatrics, shows that outside of the most obvious factors that may influence violent behavior in children, spanking remains a strong predictor. " This study controls for the most common risk factors that people tend to think of as being associated with aggression," says Singer. "This adds more credit, more data and more strength to the argument against using corporal punishment."
    Among the mothers who were studied, nearly half (45. 6%) reported no spanking in the previous month, 27. 9% reported spanking once or twice and 26. 5% reported spanking more than twice. Compared with children who were not hit, those who were spanked were more likely to be defiant, demand immediate satisfaction of their wants and needs, get frustrated easily, have temper tantrums and lash out physically against others.
    The reason for that, says Singer, may be that spanking instills fear rather than understanding. Even if a child were to stop his screaming tantrum when spanked, that doesn’t mean he understands why he shouldn’t be acting up in the first place. What’s more, spanking models aggressive behavior as a solution to problems.
What seems to be the significance of the study according to Singer?
选项 A、Spanking is added to be one of the factors affecting children’s acts.
B、Aggression of children will be given a serious study in later research.
C、Corporal punishment should be forbidden both at home and in school.
D、It adds credibility to the appeal of stopping punishing children physically.
答案D
解析 事实细节题。由题干关键词significance和Singer定位到第六段最后一句“This addsmore credence，more data and more strength to the argument against using corporalpunishment．”可知，研究提供了更多的数据，从而增加了可信度，有力地支持了反对体罚的观点。因此[D]与原文意思相符，故为正确答案。[A]“挨打被纳入影响孩子行为的原因之一”，这是既定事实，无需从研究中推出，故排除；[B]“孩子的攻击性行为将会在以后的研究中得到重视”，原文未提到会在以后的研究中如何，故排除；[C]“无论是家中还是学校都应禁止体罚”，文中未提到，故排除。
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