Spanking's Negative Effects On Children

Spanking has become a wildly use type of punishment that parents use with children. Spanking can have many negative effects on a child. It could lead to criminal behavior or the child becoming violent in the future. Children learn better from what they hear or what they are told by their parents or guardians. With spanking, comes trust issues between children and parents. There are many other forms of punishment that is more effective than spanking your child. With spanking, comes trust issues between children and parents. The results of spanking could be devastating or neural.

“Approximately one third of American families report spanking children as young as 10-18 months of age” (Maguire- Jack, K.M, 2012). Spanking can cause memory loss and

Parents often discipline children by taking away privileges such as driving or possessing a cell phone. “This type of discipline is most effective if it is not arbitrary, meaning if the child was previously aware of a consequence of a bad behavior” (Kennedy, 2015). This way, the child will then “remember that last time they had acted out, they will in return loose something. Another form of punishment that has been found more effective, more so with younger children is a time out. “During the time-out, the child must sit quietly in a predetermined location for a number of minutes, usually a minute for each year of age” (Kennedy, 2015). Straus and Stewart had found in their research that an “estimated that 35% of parents spank infants, and about 70% spank 2- to

(Park, Alice, 2010). Another word for spanking this day in age is called “corporal punishment”. Spanking may instill fear in a child, it does not always cause them to understand what they did wrong. Instead it is best to make sure the child knows what it is they did wrong. The outcome of punishment is to get the child to not only understand that they have done something wrong, but to get them to understand what caused them to act out. Studies have shown that children around the age of 2 don’t fully grasp or understand the reason why they were spanked, limited verbal skills and are unable to distinguish a behavioral plan to correct it. “These factors suggest that infants and young toddlers could be particularly vulnerable to emotional trauma and stress as a result of punishment, including spanking, because developmentally they are less equipped to understand punishment and to change their behavior to comply with their parents’ expectations” (Slade, E, 2014,