<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/c012d89e-4a8d-4595-b336-3a8ecfe92a71/5416B9E5-4B19-44AD-B2C4-5260256A7796/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.world-science.net/othernews/090924_spanking.htm" href="http://www.world-science.net/othernews/090924_spanking.htm" style="font-size: 11px;">www.world-science.net</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.world-science.net/othernews/090924_spanking.htm"><DIV>Chil­dren who are spanked have low­er IQs world­wide, ac­cord­ing to new re­search.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.world-science.net/othernews/090924_spanking.htm"><DIV> An in­ves­ti­ga­tor for the study ac­knowl­edged that at least part of this effect is due not to spank­ing it­self, but to so­ci­o­ec­o­nom­ic sta­tus: wealth­i­er fam­i­lies both spank less and man­age to raise higher-IQ chil­dren, though the first does­n’t nec­es­sarily cause the sec­ond.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.world-science.net/othernews/090924_spanking.htm"><DIV> None­the­less, the re­searcher, the Uni­vers­ity of New Hamp­shire’s Mur­ray Straus, said at least part of the ex­plana­t­ion for the find­ings is that the stress of cor­po­ral pun­ish­ment af­fects brain func­tion. This stress even­tu­ally pro­duces fear­ful, easily star­tled chil­dren, Straus said; these fac­tors in turn are as­so­ci­at­ed with low­er IQ, the most wide­spread meas­ure of gen­er­al in­tel­li­gence.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.world-science.net/othernews/090924_spanking.htm">Straus is call­ing for laws against spank­ing. Twen­ty-four na­tions have al­ready passed such laws</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/5416B9E5-4B19-44AD-B2C4-5260256A7796/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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