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ArticleJournal of the Canadian Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry = Journal de l'Academie canadienne de psychiatrie de l'enfant et de l'adolescent2025

An update on the scientific evidence

Marjorie Lindner Gunnoe, Robert E Larzelere, Christopher J Ferguson, Ronald B Cox

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Article in Journal of the Canadian Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry = Journal de l'Academie canadienne de psychiatrie de l'enfant et de l'adolescent, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Continuation of a Consideration of Spanking and Spanking Bans.Journal of the Canadian Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry = Journal de l'Academie canadienne de psychiatrie de l'enfant et de l'adolescent · 2025
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  2. The Need to Consider More Than Evidence When Justifying Physical Punishment.Journal of the Canadian Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry = Journal de l'Academie canadienne de psychiatrie de l'enfant et de l'adolescent · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Marjorie Lindner GunnoeCalvin University, Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA.
Robert E LarzelereOklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, USA.
Christopher J FergusonStetson University, DeLand, Florida, USA.
Ronald B CoxOklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In 2004, the Canadian Supreme Court upheld the right of Canadian parents to use open-handed swats to a child's buttocks to correct child misbehavior, but only as developmentally appropriate (i.e., between the ages of 2 and 12). Some social scientists believe that the Canadian Supreme Court did not go far enough. These researchers support

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Canadacorporal punishmentlegal banphysical disciplineSpankingSweden

Identifiers

PMID40969656
PMCPMC12442255

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