In the article, “Corporal Punishment”, it is written that, “Corporal punishment is defined by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) as ‘striking a child with an open hand on the buttocks or extremities with the intention of modifying behavior without causing physical injury’” (Corporal Punishment, paragraph 1). Also written in this article, roughly sixty-five to eighty-five percent of parents utilize spanking their children as an effective form of behavior modification (Corporal Punishment, paragraph 3). In today’s society, adults are beginning to argue the effects of disciplining children in this manner, yet there are more cases of violence that occur in the younger generations that aren’t being spanked and taught their lessons from a young …show more content…
Spanking can actually correct the behavior for the time being and teach good life lessons. “Proper spanking is often a necessary tool in parenting” (Larrimore, para 11). Corporal punishment allows the parent to stay in charge. Defiant children won’t respond to the discipline methods of taking privileges away from them as quickly or effectively. They need to be shown the severity of the act they commited, and a quick spanking establishes the relationship between good and bad at an early age. You can’t take an item away from a toddler and expect them to learn not to bite people from it. Children will connect the unpleasantness of a spanking to the act their parents don’t want them committing. This fear allows the parent to stay in charge of their child, and it allows the child to quickly be punished and learn from it in a manner that is not detrimental to them or their …show more content…
This form of correction helps teach the accepted behavior they need to be productive members of society. It also embeds that their actions have consequences. Some people want it to be a crime to administer corporal punishment. They want the person who commits corporal punishment on a child to pay for the crime with an unreasonable fee or jail time. The families that can’t afford the fee would then be forced to take the jail time. This is a ridiculous idea because this in the long term would hurt a child way worse. There is irony in the counterargument of how corporal punishment is detrimental in the long run when taking the parent away from the child would have more of an extreme effect on the child than the spanking. If a parent were charged with this silly crime, it’d be worse for a child to be without their parent than to be punished. Not all children who aren’t punished with corporal punishment grow up to be misbehaved, rude adults. This argument just concludes that using corporal punishment is not detrimental to a child, and they have the same, if not a better, chance at
There is a point raised by the author on the article “Spanking children isn’t abusing them” that children in residential schools had horrible and often fatal beatings (2015). Furthermore, while reading “Corporal punishment by parents and associated child behaviors and experiences: A meta-analytic and theoretical review” Gershoff asserts, “Behaviors that do not result in significant physical injury (e.g., spank, slap) are considered corporal punishment, whereas behav- iors that risk injury (e.g., punching, kicking, burning) are consid- ered physical abuse. ” (2002) As it was stated on the previous point, reasonable force has its limits, and limits the parent and care givers to discipline the child without degrading them or causing physical or psychological harm.
Spanking could also teach children that it's all right to hit, and that it's all right to be hit and that could have a negative long term effect on the children. I
Spanking doesn’t allow children to learn the reasons why to act appropriately. When parents use physical punishment, such as spanking, to discipline their children, they do so in order to improve their child’s behavior. According to a report composed by a lead researcher in the field of pediatrics, spanking does not teach children the reason for why they are being punished or why their behavior was wrong. Spanking teaches children to act in a desired way only because of fear of being punished. Being a victim of spanking, I only feared the idea of being spanked, and that is why I changed my behavior for the time being. I did not actually understand the reasoning for why I was being punished. Spanked children do not understand the positive and important reasons for acting properly.
Nadine Block argues that spanking children is not a form of love or compassion, but rather an act of violence and disciplinary spanking should be an outlawed practice. Disciplinary spanking is a different thing than a depressed or angry parent spanking a child to relieve their mood. Spanking a child in order to remove the idea of performing an action known to the child to be unacceptable is something that every parent should do, and is not an act of abuse or violence. When used correctly, spanking children is a highly effective and loving response to unruly behavior, because the child learns how to behave and become an upstanding citizen (Dodson). If a child is not disciplined for improper actions, the child is more likely to develop behavior problems and illnesses such as ADHD, while a child who is properly disciplined is more likely to grow into a better-behaved individual (Shute).
Critics of spanking need to understand that spanking and abuse are not the same. Spanking is a quick squat on the buttock that causes temporary pain. Child abuse is physical injury such as beating, kicking, or punching a child with cruel intent. Psychiatrist William Glasser makes a distinction between the two. Glasser explains, “Discipline is directed at the objectionable behavior, and the child will accept its consequences without resentment.” By contrast, he defined punishment as, “A response that is directed at the individual” (qtd. in Dobson 96). Spanking allows room for forgiveness and reconciliation. Abuse comes from a place of hostility. It is harsh and leaves little room for forgiveness or reconciliation. Yes, spanking may cause brief discomfort, but it is not the same as beating, punching, or kicking a child.
Spanking is commonly associated with parents attempting to correct behavior in a child; ultimately often out of frustration and/or anger with the child’s behavior. In the heat of the moment, most parents do not associate the long term psychosocial or behavioral effects the act of spanking can have on a child. The dangers of these effects derived from how children think and behave show us that spanking is not an effective form of discipline.
According to Park (2010) spanking has serious long term effects on a child.I agree with this argument drawn from conclusions in her article “The Long-Term Effects
First of all, spanking does not lead to violence. Our surrounding world and media do. "The average sixteen-year- old has watched 18,000 murders during his formative years, including a daily bombardment of stabbings, shootings, hangings, decapitations, and general dismemberment" (Meier 34). It seems unjust to blame parents who are trying to raise their children properly for today's violence. If a child touches a hot stove he does not become a more violent person because of it, he just learns not to do it again because he learned a valuable lesson from the pain (Meier 34).
Spanking is defined as an act of slapping, especially on the buttocks as a form of corporal punishment for children. It acts as a method of redirecting a child’s behavior. Spanking should not be outlawed because reasoning and taking away privileges may often be ineffective approaches to modify a child’s behavior, especially at a younger age. Parents have the responsibility to keep their children away from grave physical danger, and verbal lectures without consequences are often ignored or forgotten. Because there are various alternatives to corporal punishment, spanking must solely be applied as the last resort of disciplining a misbehaved child.
Marjorie Gunnoe makes several great arguments in the article “Parents should have the Right to Properly Discipline Their Children.” Honestly, do I think all children should receive corporal punishment? No, I do not think spanking is effective for everyone. I believe all kids respond to certain forms of punishment differently: but I do think in most cases spanking works. I think people who get spanked as a child learn to be more respectful not only to their parents but to other members of their society; as well as, they learn to take responsibility for their actions, and they know there are consequences to their actions and they can accept them. My mother tried to put me in time out when I was younger; she honestly did not want to spank me to
Children need to know that misbehavior does have negative consequences. They need understand early on that there is punishment every time they engage in socially unacceptable behavior. They need to know that when they grow up there are consequences for violating the law. Many children learn things differently. There are some children where spanking is effective in enforcing the right behavior, the right amount of spanking can be more beneficial for them.
Moreover they claim that spanking teaches children to be hitters themselves (Ogilvie). But doesn’t society give death row to those who kill. So children must learn that there are consequences. Of course there should be rules. For example the face is off limits, and only and open hand should be used. They also think that spanking increase antisocial behavior. But I have found out in my research that those same consequences can be associated nearly every other kind of nonphysical punishment (Preston). Just like any disciplinary tactic, the outcome depends on how and how often it is used (Ogilvie). Furthermore as long as there is a balance, spanking shouldn’t be seeing as an abusive method. Murray Starus a professor of sociology and co-director of the Family Research Laboratory at the University of New Hampshire in Durham said that spanking undermines the relationship between parent and child and that it is a traumatic experience. Well it depends, if a child understands that he is loved and that he was spanked out of love and for his own good. It shouldn’t be a traumatic experience, if not a good
Furthermore, spanking is a negative way to teach a child from their bad behavior because it can mainly lead to death. Parents may not see that a child can suffer from the extreme pain that an adult’s strength puts into the spanking but they also choose to ignore their pleading and cries from them. Adults need to know that there are many different and safe ways to punish their child without no physical or mental harm to them rather than spanking them and increasing the aggression, health problems or death. Nathan kirn was charged with child abuse after it had crossed over the line by spanking him with a belt and his was son suffering bruises around his whole body. The victim’s mother had gone to Steed Elementary School and noticing that he had
I personally do not advocate spanking. I could not imagine losing my temper to a point where I thought I needed to spank my child. While I do anticipate that having children will be a real test of patience, I do not expect that I will lose my patience so much that I will spank my children. I find spanking to be a real contradiction to what most parents tell their children. Most parents do not allow their children to hit, whether they are angry or not. Even when kids think another kid did something wrong, or bad, they are still not allowed to hit. If a parent tells a kid this, and then turns around and spanks the kid when they do something wrong, how will the kid ever learn that hitting is wrong? In my opinion, there has to be a better way to discipline children. I think that sending a child to a room where they cannot interact with anyone else, and then taking away a privilege would be a better way of handling discipline. Also, when I was a child, I can remember that when I was angry, my dad would come in to my room after I had time to cool down and talk to me about why I was angry. I can remember these as really fond times with my dad. It helped me identify why I was so angry, and most of the time it was at my mom for not letting me have my way. When I could identify why I was angry, my dad and I could come up with a solution to solve the problem. I think that rather than spanking, this is a good way to discipline children.
Corporal punishment is the physical disciplinary method used by parents, teachers, and school administrators in an effort to correct a child’s undesirable behaviors. The use of physical force is one that is often times controversial and usually evokes very strong reactions. These feelings surface, and opposing views clash, when scandals surrounding corporal punishment hit the media and heated arguments in the comments section of articles emerge. While corporal punishment occasionally makes its way into the limelight, it is a decision all parents are faced with eventually and often times daily. For example, when a toddler is sprawled out on the grocery store floor kicking, hitting, and flinging