Spanking

The 2013 study titled “Spanking and Child Development Across the First Decade of Life” examined maternal and parental spanking of children at the age of 3 and 5. This was then used to find an association between spanking and an externalizing behavior and receptive vocabulary through the age of 9 (MacKenzie, 2013). The results were that a high-frequency of spanking issued by parents and especially by fathers at the age of 5 showed an association…

spanked you as a child when you were misbehaving? Did your parents negotiate with you instead of spanking you? I can remember a few times where my parents spanked me when I misbehaved. I always thought that the way my parents would punish my sister and I was a normal thing that would happen when a child was disobedient. It turns out that there are parents who oppose using corporal punishment (spanking) on children as they find that it is wrong. Leonard Pitts, Jr. talks about this controversy in…

children. In 2016, society has a very negative view towards hitting children. Twenty years ago it was acceptable to spank children in public; however, in 2016 it is considered wrong to hit a child. Thinking about the scrutiny that currently surrounds spanking children made me realize…

but long term it caused several issues. Some issues that it revealed were psychological disorders, anger issues and it was even linked to criminality. The definition of spanking is an act of slapping, on the buttocks as a punishment for children. There is a fine line between corporal punishment and abuse; punishing a child by spanking, the after effect corporal punishment…

honest, not every child is full of sunshine and rainbows. Despite their “innocence”, there’ll be days where they’re up to no good. Whether their actions are intentional or not, what is a parent to do to instill good mannerisms and behavior? With spankings being taboo and parents finding legal repercussions, what choice would a parent have? Should you risk being punished for punishing or hope that your child doesn’t do any bad? Most people will argue that without the ability to correct…

likely to work as volunteers and more positive about life, the researchers say” (January 7, 2010). This means that researchers took teenagers and studied how discipline they were. There are certain ranges where spanking should be applied. Spanking up to the age of six is a good age to stop spanking the student or child because studies say that students and children are more optimistic about life and more successful in school. In all, if students are spanked and paddled, they will have a positive…

American people. We do torture. Best torture" (Tan 499). This shows that she likes her Chinese heritage and is not accepting of the American culture. In contrast, the grandmother who is sixty-eight years old in Who’s Irish keeps her Chinese heritage by spanking Sophie, who she considers wild, when she takes off her clothes in the park and throws them into the fountain. Sophie starts to cry and her grandmother tells her that if she doesn’t put her clothes back on she will get spanked again. Upon…

was a huge gender difference growing up, the boys did not have any chores to complete but, I had to do everything for everyone. The number one discipline the family used was spanking which I hated. I believe there are other ways to discipline a child instead of spanking or physically abuse, at first they would start with spanking then it leads to beating, kicking, or punching me with cruel intent. The discipline weren't the same for the boys, the boys had it easier because they never really…

In our culture today, more Americans are coming to the belief that physical discipline of kids such as spanking is wrong. Scientists have been more recently carrying out studies on the negative effects of physical discipline, and some parents are concurring that it is the wrong way to handle misbehaving kids. With this change of heart comes more judgement upon public figures who use physical discipline with their kids. One example is with NFL running back Adrian Peterson, who disciplined his son…

My father came to the United States from Guatemala in 1987. He told me that he came illegally and took him two months to cross into Mexico. Before my father, one uncle, two aunts immigrated to America illegally as well. My father only lasted 3 years and went back to Guatemala without giving me the opportunity to immigrate to the United States while he was in the US. He had a rough life in the United States because he was not able to find a job. I remember him telling me that many days he slept…