Validated parenting programs exclude physical punishment in every form

Evidence

What the programs that work do not include — and this is the operational finding that matters for the policy argument — is physical punishment. Not as a backup. Not as a last resort. Not in any form. The programs that the evidence base validates are built on the premise that physical punishment is not a tool in a parenting toolkit but a symptom of a toolkit that was never adequately constructed. The evidence-based parenting program is the toolkit. — , The Rod and the Child, 7190

Categorization

• DEFINE: Sharpens the operational boundary of what ‘evidence-based parenting’ means as a policy term.
• XREF: connects to: Larzelere argued mild conditional spanking by warm parents was not equatable to harsh punishment — , The Rod and the Child: A Global History…, 6734; Ending whupping requires culturally-specific, not generic, parenting programs — , The Rod and the Child: A Global History…, 5190

Related

• Ending whupping requires culturally-specific, not generic, parenting programs (similarity 0.84)
• Larzelere argued mild conditional spanking by warm parents was not equatable to harsh punishment (similarity 0.82)
• Evidence-based parenting programs can be stripped down for resource-poor settings (similarity 0.82)
• Parental beliefs predict physical punishment use more strongly than stress, income, or demographics. (similarity 0.80)
• A conditional-spanking recommendation is practically uncommunicable to parents (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Ending whupping requires culturally-specific, not generic, parenting programs #expands (0.80) — , The Rod and the Child, 5190