Table II.

Ideologies linked with approval of CP (n = 412)

	%	n
Today’s society/generation is worse off due to lack of child discipline	26.9	111
Single rather than multifactorial etiologies explain complex outcomes such as criminality	25.8	106
Interference with raising children from outside the family	22.3	92
Religious beliefs (i.e. spare the rod…)	13.4	55
Bad parenting identified with lack of control	13.1	54
Children already have too much power	12.9	53

Note: Coding categories are not mutually exclusive, and therefore do not total 100%. Percentages are out of those persons who indicated approval of CP.