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College students who were spanked as children are more likely to engage in criminal behavior, according to a new study.

Even young adults whose parents were generally loving and helpful showed higher rates of illegal activity if they’d been spanked, researchers said.

“The results show that spanking is associated with an increase in subsequent misbehavior, which is the opposite of what almost everyone believes,” said Murray Straus, co-director of the University of New Hampshire Family Research Lab. “These results are consistent with a large number of high quality peer-reviewed studies.”

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Strauss said this study and only one other he knew of had empirically investigated this topic, and both found the belief was untrue.

“Spanking seems to be associated with an increased probability of subsequent child behavior problems regardless of culture and, regardless of whether it done by loving and helpful parents,” he said.

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Researchers also found that college students who’d been spanked by both parents, and not just one, were even more likely to become associated with criminal behavior.

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“Children need lots guidance and correction, but not by being physically attacked under the euphemism of ‘spanking,’” Straus said.

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