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My n ame is Dr. Rick Frei and I just finished a study at the Community College of Philadelphia where we looked at these issues with over 500 students. We found that students who were the recipients of more severe corporal punishment were more likely to have been in trouble with police, more likely to have done drugs in the last 30 days, more likely to have hit their partner, and more likely to stay in relationships in which they were being abused. They were also more likely to be sexually aroused by spanking, and violence in general. On the flip side, those students who reported that their parents were actively involved in their lives reported being hit less by their parents. They also had less problems with police and drugs later in life.

You may not like the conclusions drawn by the researcher and you can (rightly) argue that survey research does not prove causality (maybe the children's bad behavior caused them to be spanked, not vice versa). But the data speaks for itself.