I. Introduction:
My Current research question is “What are the effects of a child receiving spanking compared to a child who does not receive spanking in a long term within interpersonal relationships and education experience?” With the addition of adding race and religion on how it adds to spanking as well. This topic is sociologically interesting to readers because it is a topic that receives controversies in the study of families from time to time. Not only the controversies but also the research it has on whether children were badly affected or became decent when they were spanked as a child.
II. The Literature:
According to the article by Giles, the research was focused on the family characteristics associated to spanking. One of the …show more content…
According to Graziano (1990), to discipline a child physically can be labeled as “child abuse” but for some individuals, it is considered as “proper discipline” (Graziano). In addition, with “proper discipline” it depends on how society defines “proper discipline” in children with the values of society and among with individuals and groups (Graziano). “Slapping, spanking, paddling, and generally hitting children for purposes of discipline are accepted, pervasive behaviors, adult behaviors in U.S families” (Graziano 1990). This article explained how disciplining a child physically is almost considered to be normal in society and that it is the correct response to fix a child’s behavior. When showing anger, pain and physical attack it was a way to show adult authority over children, which was socially accepted during the 1980’s and 1990’s (Graziano). According to a study made by Sears and Gelles, they reported that mothers spanked more than fathers. They also found that 26% of mothers believed that spanking to the child did “some good” and they had “no reservations” about it (Graziano). This statistic is helpful for my study because it is a study from the 80’s and 90’s, where my research will be focused on with children being born during that time. The study continued by conducting a survey to 679 unmarried college students during their first of college and in their psychology classes. Both male and female students, with the average age of 19 years old. The questions in the survey were consist of 25-items that lasted within 20-minutes, the students were given the definition of spanking and questions about their experience of being spanked as a child (Graziano). According to their results, one of the questions asked “How many are spanked and who does the spanking?” The results they received were that parents are the ones who did all of the
My Current research question is “What are the effects of a child receiving spanking compared to a child who does not receive spanking in a long term within interpersonal relationships and education experience?” With the addition of adding race and religion on how it adds to spanking as well. This topic is sociologically interesting to readers because it is a topic that receives controversies in the study of families from time to time. Not only the controversies but also the research it has on whether children were badly affected or became decent when they were spanked as a child.
II. The Literature:
According to the article by Giles, the research was focused on the family characteristics associated to spanking. One of the …show more content…
According to Graziano (1990), to discipline a child physically can be labeled as “child abuse” but for some individuals, it is considered as “proper discipline” (Graziano). In addition, with “proper discipline” it depends on how society defines “proper discipline” in children with the values of society and among with individuals and groups (Graziano). “Slapping, spanking, paddling, and generally hitting children for purposes of discipline are accepted, pervasive behaviors, adult behaviors in U.S families” (Graziano 1990). This article explained how disciplining a child physically is almost considered to be normal in society and that it is the correct response to fix a child’s behavior. When showing anger, pain and physical attack it was a way to show adult authority over children, which was socially accepted during the 1980’s and 1990’s (Graziano). According to a study made by Sears and Gelles, they reported that mothers spanked more than fathers. They also found that 26% of mothers believed that spanking to the child did “some good” and they had “no reservations” about it (Graziano). This statistic is helpful for my study because it is a study from the 80’s and 90’s, where my research will be focused on with children being born during that time. The study continued by conducting a survey to 679 unmarried college students during their first of college and in their psychology classes. Both male and female students, with the average age of 19 years old. The questions in the survey were consist of 25-items that lasted within 20-minutes, the students were given the definition of spanking and questions about their experience of being spanked as a child (Graziano). According to their results, one of the questions asked “How many are spanked and who does the spanking?” The results they received were that parents are the ones who did all of the