Ordinary physical punishment: Is it harmful? Comment on Gershoff (2002).

Ordinary physical punishment: is it harmful? Comment on Gershoff (2002).

E. T. Gershoff (2002) reviewed processes that might mediate and contexts that might moderate the associations between corporal punishment (CP) and child behaviors and provided an account of the methodological weaknesses of the research reviewed in her meta-analyses. In this examination of Gershoff, the authors argue that the biases and confounds in the meta-analyses further limit any causal inf...

Perspectives on the effects of corporal punishment: comment on Gershoff (2002).

Parental use of corporal punishment has been a contentious child-rearing topic for thousands of years. E. T. Gershoff's (2002) meta-analyses undoubtedly will rekindle the debate over whether parents should spank their children. The quality of the existing data is discussed as well as several surprising findings from the meta-analyses. The effects of corporal punishment are then considered from ...

Punishment revisited--science, values, and the right question: comment on Gershoff (2002).

In this comment on E. T. Gershoff (2002), the author notes the historical phases of punishment research. Punishment as a disciplinary tactic is best viewed as a packaged variable and therefore needs to be investigated in the context of other socialization practices. The role of parental values in this debate about punishment utilization and effectiveness merits more consideration. New direction...

HPV Vaccine, Is It Really Harmful?

which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Cervical cancer is considered a preventable disease because it has causative agent called Human Papilloma Virus (HPV). HPV infection was detected in up to 99% of women with squamous cell carcinoma of uterine cervix. Two HPV vaccines are approv­ ed by the U.S...

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