Spanking isn’t a bygone, outmoded form of parenting in Canada, according to a new study that finds a sizeable proportion of millennial and gen Z parents are spanking their kids. When asked whether they have ever spanked their child or children on their bottom with their hand, about 20 per cent of younger parents aged 18 to 27 (gen Zs) and millennial parents (ages 28 to 42) said “yes.” “Having a history of being spanked as a child was associated with increasing odds of spanking one’s own child,” the researchers report in the...