Spanking Children Research Paper

We conducted a survey that consisted of ten questions regarding one’s thoughts on spanking children in general. Our participants ranged from the ages of eighteen to forty-five. Sixty percent of the participants of this survey were parents, and the other forty percent were not yet parents. Questions in our survey consisted of asking if they simply believed in spankings, whether they were spanked as children, and how they believed spankings should be given if they believed in spanking a child. We then collected all the data from each individual and reviewed the results.
After examining the results of our questions we found that ninety percent of our participants viewed spankings as an acceptable form of punishment. One hundred percent of our participants were in fact spanked as children and believed that spanking with a hand or belt was acceptable. Seventy percent of our participants thought that spanking a child in public was appropriate, however only sixty percent deemed it acceptable for other people (other than the mother or father) to spank their children. Seventy percent said that spanking a child would not damage their self-esteem while seventy percent also believed that parents should cease to spank their children when they …show more content…
While researching we found that they viewed spanking as an instrumental part of parenting. The parents during the times of the great depression and world war two were extremely stern and strict with their children. If the children acted inappropriately, they were spanked. They were not concerned about damaging their self-esteem, they were far more concerned about what kind of individuals they would become and how they would contribute to society. Had they not treated their children this way, their children would not have grown up and led our country out of those dark times. We as society today can learn a lesson from