Parents Caught Spanking Children on Audiotape Real Time

Researcher George Holden set off to study how often parents yelled at their children, but after listening to 36 hours of real-time audiotapes he heard something else; the cracks of spanking and the screams that followed. Most of the behavioral incidents were "petty" in nature, according Holden, a professor of psychology at Southern Methodist University in Texas, but the punishment was "virtually all highly inappropriate." In one incident recorded on tape, a mother spanked her 3-year-old 11...Full Story