Corporal punishment

Child Abuse vs. Discipline: Where to draw the line? Physical discipline, also known as corporal punishment, is the punishment where any physical force is castoff and its purpose is to cause pain to the child in order to teach them a lesson. It goes without saying that physical violence does not teach anything to any child. According to a research conducted by UNICEF on child abuse: 4 out of 5 children are exposed to some degree of physical abuse in their homes. With a substantial amount of…

control over in which way they discipline their children however as our society and culture continues to change and adjust to our modern ways of living so should our methods of discipline. Corporal punishment is the formal term used for smacking. Recent evidence displays multiple negative effects of corporal punishment which I will go further into detail throughout this presentation. Here before I start I ask everyone in their room to ask yourself, where is the line between child abuse and…

and other forms of corporal discipline to milder forms of punishment. When these studies are analyzed it can be concluded that moderate spanking in 2-to-6 year olds seems to produce good results, shows that when mild discipline does not suffice with defiant 2-to-6 year olds, moderate spanking leads to reduced aggression, and that there is in reality not enough strong evidence that spanking, when used moderately, harms children. There are also people who claim physical punishment is borderline…

referred to as corporal punishment, has stood as a tried and trusted means of discipline, controversy regarding its integrity, value, and effects has been brought to serious question; and really, this shouldn’t be terribly shocking. The most basic and fundamental aspect of spanking itself is to strike an individual, and this can seem entirely skewed. However, when done in an appropriate manner, corporal punishment ultimately benefits those who receive its brunt in ways that other punishment…

1. Chapter 6 “Early Childhood: The Social World” section “Teaching Right and Wrong,” focuses on moral development among young children that is accord with parents’ understanding of right and wrong (Berger, 219). It discusses the many ways that parental guiding and influential factors can affect children’s behavior and their moral values. By instinct, all children have a sense of right and wrong, even when not entirely exposed to the concept of moral rules or development, it is an inborn impulse…

on how they teach, love, and discipline their children. Throughout history there have been many studies on how one might discipline their children. Some parents might use verbal punishment, but some also use physical punishment to try and get their children to behave in a way that is acceptable to them. Physical punishment is defined according to The process of parenting textbook as: Using physical force with the intent of causing the child to experience pain but not injury to correct or…

The use of physical discipline as a parenting technique has been a controversial topic for our most recent generations. The evolution of physical punishment, beginning with our ancestors to now, has changed because of the findings from research studies conducted by psychologists over time. The use of spanking has been proven to have short-term and long-term effects on children for many reasons. The least detrimental way of gathering this information is through practical research in the form of…

Many years ago children were disciplined to teach them how to behave very differently from how they do it now. For a child to learn what is right and what is wrong they need to be taught through rewards and punishments. Children should be rewarded when they do something right and punished when they do something wrong or disrespectful. Teaching children right from wrong should is the most important responsibility as a parent and over the years it has slowed down. Parents in the past used…

easy way to discipline them. Corporal punishment tends to cause physical pain on a person such as spanking, flogging, or caning. Some parents believe that spanking their child to the maximum is an easy way to discipline them. Others believe there is a limit to spanking a child in order to correct their behavior. On the other hand there are people who believe that there are many different ways to make a child understand without laying a hand on them. Corporal punishment should not be applied…

Straus writes he implies that many studies have been taken on whether or not a child is really affected long term mentally by corporal punishment. He writes “Numerous studies have investigated the long-term disabling effects of physical "abuse"but despite the prevalence of corporal punishment, only a few studies have considered the possibility that "legitimate" corporal punishment is also a risk factor for psychological maladaptation in adulthood, and most of those have been confined to…