Spanking Should Be Allowed

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their kids is a debatable topic. Spanking can lead to long-term abuse as well as other side factors. Spanking should not be able be allowed based on the chain reaction that leads to physical, mental and emotional abuse, and also abandonment. The Healthy Place has stated “that one-third of children who have wIn today’s society parents being able to spankitnessed battering from their mother or father demonstrate significant behavioural and emotional problems”. If it excels from a simple spanking, it can turn into physical abuse. Nothing more than a simple pop on the hand, butt or a pluck should be tolerated. There are no circumstances where punching your child, slapping your child in the face, or hitting them anywhere else besides the hands …show more content…

Emotionally abused children can have lifelong pattern of anxiety, inappropriate relationships, lack of appreciation and a very low self-esteem. When it comes to self esteem issues, it can affect the confidence of a child within themselves and makes them insecure. The child will always feel as if they are never good enough for anything as expressed from the abuser.They also tend to become unfamiliar with concept of love and affection. Which will later become a problem because as an adult they will most likely have trouble recognizing and understanding the needs and feelings for their own children. Then this could lead to the possibilities of emotionally abuse them also. Most emotionally abused children usually make negative comments about themselves or even some that may impersonate the abuser, like the child calling themselves the names the abuser may call them. Anxiety also falls under the emotionally abused category as mentioned earlier. With the anxiety part, they often feel as if they are always doing wrong. The children tend to always feel worried or always nervous when it comes to doing something. The child may also become angry with life because of the simple fact that they are being abused and they cannot really do or say anything to save them from this situation. There is a strong chance that if they try to say or do anything to try and stop the abuser, as she stated before, it …show more content…

Unemployment, domestic violence and their children’s future could very well be produced problems from this. She strongly feel that, unemployment could really be a cause of a child being abused. “The higher the unemployment rate is the more likely child maltreatment is likely to occur”. They feel like this because most parents that do not have jobs usually become frustrated and stressed out. Being unemployed in a relationship can cause relationship problems and can sometimes cause you to take it out on people. This where domestic violence falls into place. Children can be affected when they have witnessed domestic violence. When we say domestic violence, we are talking about what goes on at the child’s home, behind closed doors. For example, if the child has both parents in their lives then the father can be abusing the mother. Which eventually comes down to the child being abused because the mother is being abused as well. It is said that if the child witnesses violence towards their siblings or parents it may be just as harmful as the experience of them going through it. Being that the child is victimizing child abuse itself, it is most likely to carried down to their children. This will happen because it happened to them and they feel like it is right. They cannot help but to feel like that because of the fact they experienced it as well. Most of the time if you are raised a