A Case Against Corporal Punishment
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In spite of all of the research that has been conducted on the harmful effects physical force has on a child’s development, a lot of adults continue to use corporal punishment as a form of discipline. There are plenty of reasons why parents keep doing so: They wrongly believe that by inflicting pain, their children will become well-behaved saints. The parents may not fully understand the developmental process of children, which in turn makes them easily frustrated whenever their child does not act accordingly. Expecting too much of a young child is unrealistic and being dissatisfied at their maturity level is no excuse for physically hurting the child. Some parents believe that the only way children can be motivated to be obedient is by making …show more content…
In this essay, the author
- Explains that many adults continue to use corporal punishment as a form of discipline despite research on the harmful effects of physical force on children's development.
- Opines that parents should learn how to control their anger to gain more self-control. parents should establish rules in advance before the child commits the offense, adjust expectations, and impose less severe consequences.
- Opines that parents need to remember that their children are still growing up and learning, and it is completely natural for them to go through a "challenging" phase.
- Analyzes how adrian peterson and his four-year-old son were charged with negligent harm to a child on september 12th, 2014. other athletes and celebrities came to his defense and commented on how physical discipline is necessary to avoid "wussification."
- Argues that corporal punishment is hurtful and harmful and should not be used when there are other ways to discipline a child.
Any kind of benefit from using corporal punishment is short-lived and it is not worth threatening the relationship between a parent and a child. The negative outcome from hitting a child carries an emotional price that is too high (A Case Against). Parents who choose to use physical force teach their children what not to do when they should be teaching them the exact opposite. The article A Case against Corporal Punishment stated, “America is one of the most punitive of Western democracies in regard to children, misbehavior, and defiance. And this proclivity to use physical punishment has made our country of the most violent in the world.” There is no doubt that parenting is one of the most difficult jobs in the world. It is an everyday commitment and requires an immense amount of self-control. No parent is perfect and they all make mistakes, so it is important for them to learn from their missteps and make sure to do better. Children are entitled to parents who are capable of modeling kindness, patience, and love (A Case Against). Corporal punishment is neither kind nor loving, neither effective nor useful, and neither patient nor warm; therefore, parents should never establish this kind of discipline
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- Explains that there have been enormous changes in the attitudes of most parents over the last few years. some parents do not know the negative effects they can leave on children by using corporal punishments.
- Argues that corporal punishment can cause children physical injuries, or even paralyze them. according to amber mcd, even the lightest paddle can inflict serious injuries to a child.
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- Explains that the scientific evidence against disciplining a child physically is indisputable.
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- Explains the cultural spillover theory, created by baron, straus, and jafee. the 1975 national family violence survey showed that children who were physically punished had assaulted and hurt their siblings more than three times during the year.
- Explains that the most common stressors known from spanking is that it increases the violent behavior for that child. once a child has seen violence that is what he or she will be prone to do in the future.
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- Explains that a study conducted by berlin et al(2009) found that one third of the one-year-olds and about half of two year olds had been spanked in the last week, which indicates that there was considerable of spanking in low-income families.
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- Explains that child discipline determines how the child will act at home and social settings and instills habits and different values that will stick with a child for its whole life.
- Analyzes how parents' discipline of young children affects many aspects of their lives, and concludes that corporal punishment is frowned upon today.
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- Explains how a study examined the effect of child temperament on the connection between maternal discipline and early childhood externalizing problems.
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- Explains that corporal punishment is a traditional practice of imposing pain, which is commonly used by parents towards children to remove an unpleasant behavior.
- Explains that disciplined punishment is effective in a way that children know how to manage their own behavior, and they may know what is right and wrong. the frequent use of punishment may disengage into acting younger.
- Explains that exposing children to physical, psychological, and emotional torture is not helpful, in accordance with their development.
- Explains coleman's definition of reasonable corporal punishment based on normative understandings and scientific evidence of capacity and functional impairment.
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- Explains that a twenty-six-year-old woman in upper darby, pennsylvania, has been jailed for giving her son black eyes. the incident happened on december 4th of 2009, and according to the young boy, mrs.
- Analyzes how a spanking for the huber boys was not going to teach them to never break anything else, but rather address what they broke in the moment.
- Explains that mrs. huber, like other parents, deals with the hard decision of disciplining their child. the use of physical punishment in american homes led to aggression, long-term health issues, and eroded family relationships.
- Explains that corporal punishment can affect a child's long-term behavior. discipline is used to mold and teach kids how to behave, which will eventually prepare them for society.
- Explains that many parents spank their misbehaving child and expose their child to random acts of violence.
- Explains that a research conducted in tanzania, africa interviewed over 400 kids between grades 2 and 7 about physical punishment. nine percent of children had higher-than-normal levels of hyperactivity.
- Explains that studies have linked physical punishment to aggression and criminal behavior, and that corporal punishment contributed to delinquent behaviors such as theft and murder.
- Explains that children who are punished through hitting learn from their parents that important things can be communicated through corporal punishment, which leads them to think it is okay to be violent.
- Opines that if parents show kindness, children will have a reason to behave well on their own. parents need to display positive actions so the child knows to follow in those footsteps.
- Explains that corporal punishment can lead to a violent child who may struggle with mental health issues later on in life.
- Explains that depression occurs in many children when anger is repressed. the inflicted pain caused by corporal punishment is too much for a child to handle.
- Explains that physical punishment can be a frightening and traumatic experience for many children. parents spank their children when they see them doing something bad.
- Explains that children are hit without proper explanation of why they deserve the punishment; they develop poor self-esteem and this can make it difficult for them to adjust socially in school.
- Explains that spanked children may feel disconnected from society and have a hard time adjusting. many children will try therapy to fix or at least deal with the problems that may have occurred many years ago.
- Explains that there are alternative forms of discipline for which a parent may use and see positive results. a majority of children disagree with the use of corporal punishment.
- Explains that healthy parent-child relationships consist of affection, communication, and quality time. children's relationships with their parents may be damaged by corporal punishment.
- Opines that a relationship grows more and more as parents spend time with their child, especially in the younger years, where most of the discipline takes place.
- Opines that spanking a child will result in the child losing trust and respect for their parent.
- Opines that when the home becomes an unhealthy environment to live in, the child will eventually go off and live with friends, complete strangers or end up in the streets. most kids will run away because the relationship they hold with their parent is just unbearable.
- Opines that children who will become adults have trust issues and will most likely not want to get to close to another person.
- Explains that corporal punishment has a huge impact on children's lives, from their emotions to their psychological well-being, and relationships.
- Cites gates, sara. "spanking children & mental health: punishment linked to disorders later in life." huffington post.
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- Argues that the theory of screaming, power hungry children taking over the world in a fit of rage is plausible, but the opposition cites recent studies that support that corporal punishment increases the rate of child abuse.
- Analyzes how a full ban of corporal punishment has already been implemented in multiple counties, spearheaded by sweden in 1979.
- Argues that sweden's argument fails to understand the new culture the swedish have adopted and the facts surrounding new laws.
- Argues that the right thing to do is to give our children the same rights as our family, friends, neighbors, and strangers.
- Explains that corporal punishment is the physical disciplinary method used by parents, teachers, and school administrators in an effort to correct a child's undesirable behaviors.
1252 wordsRead More - Corporal Punishment in Public Schoolsanalytical essayCorporal punishment is defined as “an infliction of punishment to the body.” My primary reason for not approving corporal punishment would be that corporal punishment creates a negative reaction from the student’s perspective plus additional problems in the end. To discipline students in a way that will harm them into non-misbehavior is not the way to go. I claim that corporal punishment in public schools should not be permitted because it is barbaric, harmful, and in no way a method to solve personal problems.
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- Argues that corporal punishment in public schools should not be permitted because it is barbaric, harmful, and in no way a method to solve personal problems.
- Argues that corporal punishment in public schools is barbaric because it can cause so much stress in a child who usually experiences this from bullying or child abuse. brain scans display structural and biochemical change that affects the child's social behavior.
- Explains that corporal punishment in schools can lead to harmful effects in a student's health. according to science daily, punitive environments may have long-term effects on children’s verbal intelligence and executive-functioning ability.
- Explains that dr. murray straus conducted research on 17,000 students from 32 countries and discovered that the higher the percent of parents who used corporal punishment, the lower national average iq.
- Opines that corporal punishment in schools would be sending the wrong message to people in pertaining solving their problems.
- Explains that bullies are usually children who terrorize other people because they too had suffered from pain from those who attacked them.
- Concludes that corporal punishment should not be permitted in public schools. alternative punishments include in and out of school suspension programs, expulsion, and detention.
- Explains that corporal punishment may have long-term negative effects on children's intelligence.
- Analyzes how spanking children harm their intelligence.
655 wordsRead More - Corporal Punishment and Abuseanalytical essay“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.
In this essay, the author
- Explains that corporal punishment has been one of the main topics of research in psychology in last few decades.
- Explains that children are like nave "b-cells of body"; they learn from the people around them and do so what is taught to them by their guiders.
- Explains that corporal punishment leads to aggression and anti-social behaviour in children, as well as criminal tendencies and delinquency.
- Explains that corporal punishment results in a decrease in mental health and iq level of the victims.
- Analyzes the negative effects of corporal punishment on children's self-control, as they are afraid of being punished if they don't follow their parents' instructions.
- Cites arcurs, yuri, and sciencedaily. physical punishment of children potentially harmful to their long-term development.
- Explains that spanking kids can lead to more aggressive behaviour.
- Explains gershoff, elizabeth thompson, "corporal punishment by parents and associated child behaviours and experiences: a meta-analytic and theoretical review."
- Opines that "hitting people is wrong – and children are people too." end corporal punishment.
- Analyzes kandel's physical punishment and the development of aggressive and violent behaviour: a review. never hit a child.
- States smith, anne b., "the state of research on the effects of physical punishment." ministry of social development.
- Summarizes research on the effects of corporal punishment. end corporal punishment.
1373 wordsRead More - Methods of Child Disciplineopinionated essayIn western society, there has been debate in recent years over the use of corporal punishment for children in general, and increased attention has been given to the concept of "positive parenting" where good behavior is encouraged and rewarded
In this essay, the author
- Explains that the topic of child discipline involves a wide range of fields such as parenting, behavioural analysis, developmental psychology, social work, and various religious perspectives.
- Explains that discipline is used by parents to teach their children the correct way to behave. it can involve rewards and punishments to increase desirable behaviors and decrease undesirable behaviour.
- Explains that in western society, there has been debate in recent years over the use of corporal punishment for children in general, and increased attention was given to the concept of positive parenting where good behavior is encouraged and rewarded.
- Explains how the gambia teachers' union has been training teachers on alternative methods of punishment.
- Analyzes how german researchers responded to debates on this issue by releasing a new study demonstrating the relationship between corporal punishment and long-term psychological effects regardless of child's culture and background.
- Opines that corporal punishment has a negative effect on children's social behavior. they report that 95% of children had been physically punished by teachers, including slapped, pinched or punched.
- Explains that in many regions of the world, students are slapped or caned for disobedience and disrespect. one example from china shows the psychological damage that can result from school discipline.
- Opines that human rights activists cannot say that physical punishment is directly related to emotional and behavioural problems as this country does not accept it.
- Argues that physical punishment does not teach children about morals and self-discipline to aid them in the rest of their lives.
- Explains that punishment in schools has drastically changed in this country. teachers are reinforcing the child's rebellious and angry feelings towards authority figures.
- Opines that effective and positive discipline is about teaching and guiding children and not just forcing them to obey. discipline is one of the most important yet difficult responsibilities of parenting.
- Explains that effective discipline is discipline applied with mutual respect in a firm, fair, reasonable and consistent way.
- Explains that time-out is one of the most effective disciplinary techniques available to parents of young children, aged two years through primary school years.
- Recommends that parents refrain from hurting the child's self-esteem by instilling shame, guilt, loss of trust or a sense of abandonment.
- Explains that reasoning or away-from-the-moment- discussions can help prevent undesirable behaviour by giving parents the opportunity to teach the child the desirable behaviour in advance.
- Explains that positive reinforcement is a more practical way of dealing with unwanted behaviour and the best way to reinforce positive behaviour.
- Explains that children who are rewarded for correct behaviour are more likely to do well in life and grow with morals and an understanding of what is right and wrong.
- Explains that there are many forms of punishment for children that are both useful and damaging. further research into teaching and punishment would be much more beneficial.
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