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Running Head: Spanking Favor Spanking To Discipline

Exercise #4

Spanking Favor Spanking to Discipline Child Controlling For Respondents’ Race

Marvin Merriweather

SOWK 300

Tuskegee University

Wednesday, September 29, 2010

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Abstract

Corporal punishment is a very controversial topic in society. Whether you agree or

disagree on constructive ways to discipline a child, people are still highly opinionated when it

comes to this issue. In this paper, my data will be examining how people look at spanking as it is

compared by age and race. Further-more I will show the correlation between race and a person

views on corporal punishment. Finally, I hope to show how favorable spanking is as a means of

discipline.
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Table 1
Spanking Favor Spanking to Discipline Child by AGECAT4
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R’s Age Group (%)
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Spanking 18-29 30-39 40-59 50+ Row totals

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Strongly agree 19.3 18.4 18.0 44.3 22.9

Agree 20.7 24.7 18.7 36.0 50.5

Disagree 18.6 23.1 21.1 37.2 20.0

strongly Disagree 19.4 25.4 28.4 26.9 6.7

Totals 19.9 23.0 19.7 37.5 100.0

(N) (198) (229) (196) (374) (997)

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Table 2

Spanking Favor Spanking to Discipline Child by AGECAT4

Controlling for RACE of Respondent (%)

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Age Group of R

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Spanking 18-29 30-39 40-49 50+ Row Totals

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White Respondents

Strongly Agree 19.7 17.4 17.4 45.5 21.1

Agree 19.0 23.7 19.2 38.0 50.7

Disagree 18.0 22.5 20.2 39.3 21.1

Strongly Disagree 17.2 27.6 25.9 9.3 6.9

Totals 18.8 22.4 19.5 39.3 100.0

(N) (158) (188) (164) (330) (840)

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Black Respondents

Strongly Agree 15.5 23.1 17.9 43.6 37.9

Agree 31.4 29.4 15.7 23.5 49.5

Disagree 22.2 33.3 22.2 22.2 8.7

Strongly Disagree 50.0 25.0 25.0 3.9

Totals 25.2 27.2 17.5 30.1 100.0

(N) (26) (28) (18) (31) (103)