Posted by Tiredandsad on May 20, All I remember was that I was in trouble. I was in trouble a lot. But this time was different and it was going to become the start of my personal hell. My parents sent me to my room. I fumed in there while I waited. Eventually my father came in looking serious.

A new study found a correlation between children who are hit or spanked as a form of punishment and an increased likeliness of physically abusing romantic partners in adulthood. Although the research could not prove that one directly caused the other, it serves as yet another piece of data to suggest that corporal punishment could do more harm than good. For the research published Tuesday in the Journal of Pediatrics , researchers from the University of Texas Medical Branch followed high school students from all over Texas. They interviewed the students when the teens were in the 9th and 10th grade and followed up when the students were between 19 and 20 years old.

Last week, the trial of the Rev. Thomas Chantry, a Baptist pastor from Arizona who has been accused of multiple counts of child molestation, began. When a parent finally questioned Chantry about the beatings, he admitted to spanking children in his care but denied the other allegations, which include molesting children as young as 9 years old. Chantry felt comfortable acknowledging the spankings because our culture still refuses to recognize spanking as a sex act when inflicted on little kids. But the spankings were every bit as sexual as the other abuse.