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Beating a child damages his/her ability to reason, plan and delay gratification — research from West Africa 0

For those of us accustomed to the effects of violence, this may not be surprising The University of Toronto reported that: Children in a school that uses corporal punishment performed significantly worse in tasks involving “executive functioning” — psychological processes such as planning, abstract thinking, and delaying gratification — than those in a school relying [...]