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The Pros And Cons Of Spanking Children

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In child rearing and disciplining, the use of Corporal Punishment is the most common method of child disciplining, 67% of parents nowadays use corporal punishment as a way of disciplining. 1 Corporal Punishment in child rearing is the use of force that causes pain with the intent to control the child. Mothers are the ones who use spanking the most. Spanking children is a highly controversial act. Spanking children is a violent and offensive practice. Spanking children is a very common practice, which people do because of how they were raised as a child. This causes them to believe that spanking is a viable option for disciplining their children. Spanking also causes children to suffer psychological trauma and that leads them to commit various …show more content…

Spanking also known as corporal punishment has a lot more negative aspects as it has positive. One of them being mental illness and sociological issues. Researchers have conducted their studies and found that a child that is beaten on a daily basis has a 70% higher chance of going towards drugs to escape there stress.3 Spanking also causes tress to the child and this lead them to lying to parents and get into more trouble just to avoid the punishment they will face. Another reason on why corporal punishment has more negatives than positives is the fact that corporal punishment or spanking leads to mental issues as well as psychological issues, when a child is beaten, he gets angry and this rage builds within them and causes them to harm another to relieve themselves this is a psychological issue that many teen faces and is the number 1 reason on why school violence like stabbing and shootings occur. Also, you can put out a fire with fire because what you do is what your children will learn from you, children at a small age look up to their parents. They think and wish that they were just like him so by spankings or beating your child this will ultimately cause them to do the same. Child rearing also leads to child abuse it is said that 75% of child abuser were beaten and spanked as a child, so they take their frustrations and anger out on their own kids and so on.3 As said before many parents who spank their child don’t know the difference between spanking and beating and even if they do they still believe that they are right. So by ending spanking as a whole this will reduce the number 1 cause of child abuse, beating instead of spanking and also family disputes and drug issues among teen in today’s

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My feelings regarding spankings are inappropriate because it models aggressive behavior in young children. 8. Spankings should be administered with care. 9. Corporal punishment is the use of physical force causing pain, but not wounds, as a means of discipline; such as spanking, shaking, slapping hands and etc.

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I think that, in order to raise a well-disciplined child, I will have to use physical discipline. People who say spanking obviously don't know how to deal with children. I do not believe that to raise a well-discipline child you need to use physical discipline. I thing that one of the most basic ways we can raise your children is simply by being a good role model for them.

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Spanking gets an immediate reaction from a child, which can also send a signal to the student, the teacher, and the parent that a certain type of behavior will not be tolerated. Sometimes however, the student will not understand why they were spanked, or react to the punishment negatively. Students who are abused at home may see the punishment as abuse at school, and emotionally and/or physically shut down in the school environment. The article suggests spanking is over-used, and questions the legitimacy of using this tactic for cell phone violations, inappropriate language, running in hallways, sleeping in class, and failing to turn in homework. An administrator who chooses to use corporal punishment should take the offense into great consideration.

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Annotated Bibliography The topic I chose to research is spanking considered child abuse? Spanking has been a debated topic for a long time. Many people believe corporal punishment is child abuse, and some believe spanking is a way of instilling right from wrong in a child. I personally believe spanking is okay to an extent, meaning you keep a level head. Corporal punishment has been around for many years.

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Section 43 of the Criminal Code states that “Every schoolteacher, parent or person standing in the place of a parent is justified in using force by way of correction toward a pupil or child, as the case may be, who is under his care, if the force does not exceed what is reasonable under the circumstances”.(Government of Canada,1985) The action of corporal punishment, otherwise known as “spanking” is done to improve a child’s behaviour or eliminate reoccurrence of disobedience. Spanking a child is an ineffective way to discipline children and exposes them into an aggressive environment. This type of punishment models the use of aggression and violence, teaching children it is acceptable to use violence. The practice of spanking often correlates with children developing into violent adolescents.

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The parents thought that using spanking is help to control the children when they do wrong. As Dr. Jared Pringleton explains in Time magazine article in 2014 called “Spanking can be an appropriate form of discipline.” His inspiration was NFL player’s Adrian Peterson’s charges of abuse on his 4 year old child and the over the debate on spanking. Director of Focus for Family Counseling, Clinical Psychologist Dr. Pringleton believes when properly understood and administered, spanking is most effective as a deterrent for undesired behavior in preschoolers, and not infants. It should only be used when there is willful disobedience or defiance of authority and never mere childish

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If families do not have some form of discipline inside of their household things would begin to get out of control and become chaotic. So some parents choose to use spankings as a form of discipline. I think that spanking is necessary in raising children. In my household spanking was enforced for my siblings and I when we were younger, it was to teach us what’s right from wrong. Spanking is a disciplinary action where children can learn from it.

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Spanking can be effective when a child is not listening to a parent. If a child isn’t following proper rules and disregarding their parents’ statement, then a spanking can enforce a form of respect that the child has to follow (Jasmine, 2015). It can be an awakening to reality as the child could now think of how their actions are deviant. Parents that don’t resolve to spanking as the first and only method of discipline is essential for both the parents and the child. I believe a parent should always try to enforce rules by talking and showing examples of how deviant actions are frowned upon.

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Spanking is used widely around the world as a form of discipline towards a child; however, some people say this action may be considered child abuse. According to childhelp.org, child abuse can be defined as when, “a parent or caregiver, whether through action or failing to act, causes injury, death, emotional harm or risk of serious harm to a child.” Child maltreatment can come in the forms of neglect, physical abuse, sexual abuse, exploitation and emotional abuse. However, spanking does not fall under the category of child abuse because it does not cause serious injury or long-term emotional abuse.

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In different instances, this would come up in conversations and the reactions were for the majority “that’s awful” or “poor thing” or “I can’t understand how anyone could do such a thing” and I never fully understood why. My mother was raised with an abusive father and a compromising mother (who too was dealing with the abuse), so I have seen how a negative experience can have a positive impact/result (message) on a person/child. I have now grown a curiosity to understand the different limits of child abuse and believe what my parents did benefitted me and any other children who received this discipline. With that in mind, I am going to define, and explore different aspects of child abuse with some modern examples.     Some people believe that physical punishments can be degrading and negatively affect the mental health of the child compared to those who think it teaches discipline and how to respect others without any significant damage to the child 's psyche.

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