Abuse can be defined in thousands of ways. Can be defined as in improper use of something, or cruel and violent treatment of a person (Merriam-Webster). Ultimately leading to harmful events. In “ Why America should outlaw spanking” an article written by Emily Bazelon talks about banning spanking kids under the age of four to ensure kids safety at home. Child abuse is one of the well know abuses worldwide. Along with underage alcohol abuse. Were Barrett Seaman covers in “How Bingeing became a new college sport”. Each scenario is treated differently because it involves different crowed of people. For example child abuse focuses on parents and underage drinking focuses on young adults. Why are both scenarios treated differently when looked at
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Bazelon article states that there should be a law established to ban spanking kids under the age of four. By doing that there will be far more control than there is right now. “The state would feel more power over the parents. But then parents would have near infinite amount of power over their kids (746). Improving kids safety is the overall goal Bazelon is trying to point across she states that 90% of the Korean company reports that they find corporal punishment necessary (744). Now setting those statistics imagine how many kids are at the risk of being abused. Having adults themselves vote towards it. Is not fair for the children, why? Because for all we know the ones voting against having spanking ban are the abusers. In contrast teenagers don’t vote into having the drinking age minimized. Adults establish it, and that is a problem because they are not taking teenagers though under …show more content…
Like Barrett mention “A hard and fast rule like banning spanking would infuriate and frustrate some perfectly loving parents…while making it easier for police and prosecutors to go after the bad ones.” Meaning that the abusers will be targeted quicker. Leading to changing their ways and avoid physical abuse towards their child. Along with this goes under age drinking which Seaman mentions that if the law was changed it would also influence college students by “initially, there would be a surge in binge drinking…but over time… college students would settle into the saner approach to alcohol”. Overall changing the attitude they have over alcohol within time. In conclusion both Seaman and Bazelon have two different abuses that as we see are viewed different, but yet have a lot of similarities in order to over come the abuse. Both require to change the law, set limits and lastly to have actions taken to change the attitude of the person being
Bazelon article states that there should be a law established to ban spanking kids under the age of four. By doing that there will be far more control than there is right now. “The state would feel more power over the parents. But then parents would have near infinite amount of power over their kids (746). Improving kids safety is the overall goal Bazelon is trying to point across she states that 90% of the Korean company reports that they find corporal punishment necessary (744). Now setting those statistics imagine how many kids are at the risk of being abused. Having adults themselves vote towards it. Is not fair for the children, why? Because for all we know the ones voting against having spanking ban are the abusers. In contrast teenagers don’t vote into having the drinking age minimized. Adults establish it, and that is a problem because they are not taking teenagers though under …show more content…
Like Barrett mention “A hard and fast rule like banning spanking would infuriate and frustrate some perfectly loving parents…while making it easier for police and prosecutors to go after the bad ones.” Meaning that the abusers will be targeted quicker. Leading to changing their ways and avoid physical abuse towards their child. Along with this goes under age drinking which Seaman mentions that if the law was changed it would also influence college students by “initially, there would be a surge in binge drinking…but over time… college students would settle into the saner approach to alcohol”. Overall changing the attitude they have over alcohol within time. In conclusion both Seaman and Bazelon have two different abuses that as we see are viewed different, but yet have a lot of similarities in order to over come the abuse. Both require to change the law, set limits and lastly to have actions taken to change the attitude of the person being