Why I Don’t Spank My Child
9 min readJan 5, 2020
….and Yes — I am Black.
I don’t spank my child. She’s six. And Yes — I’m Black.
I almost feel like that’s enough of a confessional there. Right or wrong — there’s a stereotype that most Black people spank their kids. And honestly — it’s not really that much of a stereotype. According to a CNN article:
In a study Gershoff co-authored that examined 20,000…