All spanking is child abuse. Full stop.
From what you've described, there is zero reason to believe that the spankings your peers in the strict Muslim and Christian homes was a factor in their later success.
From what you've described, there is zero reason to believe that the spankings your peers in the strict Muslim and Christian homes was a factor in their later success.
Also the study concludes that countries where spanking is bad results into adults getting in less physical confrontations. But do they chose that based on better solutions or does it mean a population afraid of serious confrontations.
Trying to place a black/white filter on something like this is intellectually vacuous.
I hope you understand the distinction I was trying to make.
I’d have expected a correlation to show up.