“…spanking is detrimental to children and is associated with children's greater aggressive behavior (Berlin et al, 2009;Gershoff, 2002;Gershoff, 2013;Gershoff et al, 2012;Grogan-Kaylor, 2004;Lansford et al, 2011;Lee, Altschul, & Gershoff, 2013;MacKenzie et al, 2013;Maguire-Jack et al, 2012). However, prior studies of spanking that included fathers have generally examined predictors of fathers' spanking (Lee, Guterman, & Lee, 2008;Lee et al, 2011); fathers' spanking separately from mothers (Lee, Taylor, Altschul, & Rice, 2013;Prinzie et al, 2006); or did not examine the transactional nature of parent child interactions (Lee, Taylor, Altschul, & Rice, 2013).…”