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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.
The research of Tulane University has reinforced that______.
选项 A、the earlier a child get spanking, the severer consequence he gets
B、when a child receives a spanking decides how far he can go in academy
C、spanking has a serious impact on a child’s cognitive performance
D、frequent spanking will finally produce an aggressive adolescent
答案C
解析 事实细节题。由题干关键词Tulane University和reinforced定位到第二段最后一句The research supports earlier work on the pitfalls of corporal punishment，including a study byDuke University researchers that revealed that infants who were spanked at 12 months scoredlower on cognitive tests at age 3．该研究证实了以前关于体罚带来的危险的研究结果，如杜克大学的研究表明，1岁时就开始挨打的孩子到3岁时，认知测试要比其他孩子分数低。由此可知，杜兰大学证明了以前关于体罚的研究，即体罚会对孩子的认知能力产生严重影响，[C]与原文表述相符，故为正确答案。[A]“孩子挨打的年龄越早，后果越严重”，本文的研究已经对孩子的年龄做了限定，因此该项与原文不符，故排除；[B]“孩子何时挨打决定了他学业的发展程度”，是对原文的曲解，故排除；[D]“频繁殴打会最终使孩子成为具有攻击性行为的青少年”，本文未提到青少年，故排除。
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