Throughout time parents have used corporal punishment to discipline their children. Some people believe that corporal punishment is the best and fastest way to discipline them. Do parents that use corporal punishment to discipline, educating their children or instilling fear in them? Spanking or hitting a child might make them stop doing an undesired action or behavior, but they are not stopping because they know what they were doing was wrong; they are stopping because they are afraid of getting hit again. The use of corporal punishment only helps the parents make the child stop an action the parents see undesirable, but it does not help the child 's mental health. Victims of corporal punishment end up having psychological problems throughout …show more content…
To some of those people, violence is a normal part of life and do not see it as them doing something wrong. For instance, there are people in the streets that start fights maybe because he or she got their food accidently dropped on the floor and the only way they know how to solve the problem is through fighting and once the fight is over they walk away in a nonchalant manner like nothing out of the ordinary happened. They become desensitized to violence and see it as the only way to solve their problems. People who were spanked frequently as children have more interest in owning guns and seem more prone to violence( ) Those people are used to living in a world that is surrounded by violence so they do not know any other way of living. In the article “Spanking and Crime Rates” the author states, “Spanking is still common in large parts of America, especially in the evangelical milieus of southern states. This is also where crime remains relatively high, gun ownership common, and incarceration excessive” ( ) The fact that the author chose to speak about the southern part of the United States because that is where it is the most common to spank and compares it to the high crime rates as well as high incarceration rates prove how corporal punishment is correlated with violence and
Swat! The entire store tries not to stare at the overwhelmed mother spanking her three-year-old whaling son. As if the screaming tantrum wasn't enough of a side show at the supermarket. This method, or technique perhaps, has been around for decades, even centuries. Generations have sat on grandpa’s lap and listened to the stories of picking their own switch or getting the belt after pulling off a devilish trick. So why then has it become a major controversy in the past few decades? The newest claim is that spanking and other forms of physical punishment can lead to increased aggression, antisocial behavior, physical injury and mental health problems for children. Brendan L. Smith uses many case studies and psychologists findings in his article “The Case Against Spanking” to suggest that parents refrain from physically punishing their children due to lasting harmful effects.
For example, in 1999 a study in corporal punishment prevalence done by Straus and Stewart found that corporal punishment is more common in the southern US. On the same way, in 2014 Kemme et al. study about the parental corporal punishment experience in childhood and adolescence found that individuals who experience any type of physical punishment by their parents tend to be more punitive that those who come from a household where corporal punishment was not implemented. However, based on class content, physical punishment involving an object is considered as child physical abused, therefore, it should be processed. There are many other ways in which a child can be punished by a misbehavior without having to take the risk of weakening parent-child bond or physically abusing the child. Also, other ways that will not condition the individual to believe that violence is justified, that gives justification to more serious abuse, or to contribute to see punishment as an appropriate means to shape
The general acceptance, and sometimes support, of corporal punishment as a method of discipline is an aspect of the American culture (Barnett, Miller-Perrin, Perrin 61).
Everyone has heard the phrase “monkey see, monkey do”, and children are definitely victims of copying what their parents do (Ogilvie). Spanking does not teach right from wrong, unless a parent feels the need to let their children become aggressive and violent, by the example they set in place for their child (Park). In a study led by Catherine Taylor, it was found that a child at age five that is spanked twice during one month would become more aggressive by fifty percent (Park). Spanking sets up a continuous cycle of bad behavior because this punishment causes fear rather than understanding of what they had done wrong (Park). Spanking a child can change the relationship between child and parent, the child will fear being hit again and learn to lie instead of learning to do what is right (Ogilvie). This poor disciplinary action can lead a child to not do what is right, but to never learn and do wrong.
There is an indirect correlation between children who are physically punished and those who have antisocial behavior. Studies have shown that children who are punished in a physical way, often exhibit difficulties obeying rules and norms as they grow up. According to "The Effect Of Corporal Punishment On Antisocial Behavior In Children” by Andrew Grogan Kaylor, “Children 's age had an effect on levels of antisocial behavior, in that older children exhibited higher levels of antisocial behavior.” Antisocial behavior is demonstrate more as the child grows older. Parents often use corporal punishment as a way to discipline a child when they exhibit antisocial behavior. However, studies have shown that corporal punishment increases this behavior instead of decreasing (Eamon 2001; Eamon & Zuehl, 2001; Straus & Donnelly, 2001; Straus et al., 1997). When comparing data from children who were greatly exposed to corporal punishment and those whose parents occasionally used this way of punishing their child, data showed that there was a very small differences between both groups. This study demonstrated that even if parents do not use physical punishment often, it can still cause their child to have antisocial behavior. According to "A Cross-Cultural Examination Of The Link Between Corporal Punishment And Adolescent Antisocial Behavior” by Ronald L. Simons, Chyi-In Wu, Kuei-Hsiu Lin,
According to a research done by Elizabeth Oddone Paolucci and Claudio Violato. They believed “that through experiencing corporal punishment, violent strategies are modeled or imitated and then added to the child 's behavioral repertoire. These strategies are assumed to interfere with the subsequent learning of more cooperative, prosocial conflict resolution strategies” (199). For example, in an assumption that “…physically punitive parents end up with aggressive children, it is because the child has learned some pattern of response. It maybe suggested, alternatively, that the child had a predisposition toward aggressive behavior, and that the punitive parental behavior is a response to the child” (Muller 1324). Underlying the spanking, parents are sending the wrong message to their kid to hit another person, like a sibling. Are parents really teaching their kids a lesson from violence or are they encouraging them? Spanking sets a bad example to prevent behaviors that will conclude in
To quantify the emotional health of children who are spanked, one can assess their academic success. Abusive environments, which some consider inclusive of moderate corporal punishment, are not conducive to a child’s learning environment; however, whether or not children are spanked has no effect on their education (Levitt and Dubner 108). I was spanked frequently throughout my childhood and have always excelled academically. Even currently, my class rank is 13, so parents need not worry about corporal punishment affecting their child’s short-term or long-term
Children are like flowers, if well taken care of they will glow. If ignored or tortured, they will damage or die. Child discipline is one of the most significant basics of successful parenting. Today, many people have this belief that physical abuse is in no way a solution to helping children recognize between right and wrong. Since generations children have been learnt the art of discipline through physical punishment. Often this approach to disciplining has resulted in two consequences, one is where the child becomes more generous and is able to obey what he or she has been stated, or the other which more often results in children developing a sense of suffering and wish to revolution. I believe that sometimes parents are caught in a situation when children annoyed all boundaries of discipline and spanking is the only actual answer. Therefore, it is essential to do spanking for child discipline since it is the important element of successful parenting.
The older generation was looking for a much quicker and effective way to manage bad behavior thus resulting in physical punishment. Spankings was not uncommon for the much older generations. This argument continues on whether or not that’s why the parents of today are more willingly to use nonviolent disciplines. The parents who are supportive in spankings often argue the fact that:
Corporal punishment means to educate by implement of physical pain on learners in order to enhance their ability of studying. As we know, students will often follow the instructions which given by their instructor. However, if they don’t, many instructors are likely to introduce the corporal punishment such as hitting, slapping, spanking and kicking rather than promotes the oral education method to force their students to have a better performance. Gradually, corporal punishment have become a widely known phenomenon all over the world. According to the Department of Education’s 2006 Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC), it clearly showed that a total of 223,190 students without disabilities received corporal punishment in that year around the
Child Outcomes of Nonabusive and Customary Physical Punishment by Parents, (Robert E. Larzelere), focused majorly on the causal effect of punishment on children and aimed to determine if the short-term outcomes of spanking were beneficial. In this report, the emphasis was placed on non-abusive physical punishment, primarily spanking, without completely focusing on the severity of its use or its comparison to other types of physical discipline. A great amount of research was obviously put into the article from various sources such as Psych Lit. The accuracy of this report was evident as it methodically and logically eliminated measures dominated by severity or abusiveness (eliminating 37 more studies) and measures focused on nonspanking tactics. Finally, the average age of the child when spanked had to be younger than 13 years (eliminating 42 otherwise eligible studies). Overall, the 38 q...
Many parents find themselves using frequent sayings such as, “do not touch that”, do not do that”, and “stop being mean to your sister!” Along with those sayings, parents still refer to a specific passage from the Bible, Proverbs 22:15, which states: Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. The chapters 22 and 23 of Proverbs speak of how the rod should be used and when. It also tells parents spanking the child will not kill him. Many researchers and parents would argue these facts and state is does cause harm but if they could understand the limitations of the teachings, incorporate communication, and set boundaries the use of a rod would instill wisdom, instruction, and understanding in a child.
“It hurts and it’s painful inside – it’s like breaking your bones; it’s loud and sore, and it stings; it feels like you’ve been adopted or something and you’re not part of their family; you feel like you don’t like your parents anymore; you feel upset because they are hurting you, and you love them so much, and then all of a sudden they hit you and you feel as though they don’t care about you” (Pritchard 9). These are the feelings of those juveniles who suffer from corporal punishment. Corporal punishment has been one of the main topics of research in Psychology in last few decades. Although people had believed, “Spare the rod and spoil the child” but in the present age of science, research has revealed that the corporal punishment causes more harm to the children instead of having a positive effect on them. According to UNICEF, “Corporal punishment is actually the use of physical measures that causes pain but no wounds, as a means of enforcing discipline” (1). It includes spanking, squeezing, slapping, pushing and hitting by hand or with some other instruments like belts etc. But it is different from physical abuse in which punishment result in wounds and the objective is different from teaching the discipline. Although Corporal punishment is considered to be a mode of teaching discipline and expeditious acquiescence, however, it leads to the disruption of parent-child relationship, poor mental health of juveniles, moral internalization along with their anti-social and aggressive behaviour and it is against the morality of humans.
There is a lot of violence in the world today, but think about this: what if these people were once beaten and physically abused as children? In the article, Parents and Experts Split on Spanking, an expert, Dr. Spock, states that the reason there is a lot of violence in the world could be because of all the spanking that the parents do to their children (1). This statement could possibly be true. As children grow up, they’re always told that it is not nice to hit others. Furthermore, they’re told that if they do, there will be consequences. But if you think about it, how are these children suppose to follow the “no hitting” rule if they are constantly being spanked for their misbehaviors? In the end, it leads me to believe that if children are spanked after misbehaving, they will continue to grow up believing that violence is ultimately the answer.
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