Spanking

Spanking is the topic of choice for this paper. Spanking is a form of physical or corporal punishment. According to Straus and Donnelly (1993), physical or corporal punishment is defined as the use of physical force toward a child that causes the child to experience pain, but not injury, for the purpose of correction or control of behavior. Attitudes about spanking is measured in the GSS codebook as a question. The question asks if the participant strongly agree, agree, disagree, or strongly…

Children should be spanked because it helps them perform better in school, teaches them what's expected of them, and teaches them respect. Spanking children may have a huge effect on the performance of a child at school. According to Rosemary Black “A study, which found that young children whose parents spank them perform better at school later on…” Spanking a child teaches them to do their best because they know there are going to be consequences for the things they have done or do wrong.…

I agree, in my opinion spanking your child can be an effective way to administer punishment especially if the child is caught in the act of doing something wrong; but I think that if you were to spank the child a while after he or she has already done something wrong it would not be as effective as being caught in the act. As a child, I can remember when my parents would give me a spanking for something I did wrong and most of the time if they caught me in the act and punished me right then…

discipline and will need even more? That’s not it; you might just be wrong by disciplining your child. Doing something negative to your child won’t have a positive effect according to an author. The one particular author in the persuasive article “No spanking, No time out, No problems” written by Olga Khazan primarily tries to persuade her readers on a controversial issue to not discipline their children. The uses of rhetorical strategies consecutively connect with her readers…

discipline. However, spanking kids has some positive effects and intentions. Spanking kids can be shocking them into behaving correctly. It can prepare them for the real world. Parents spank their children with the best intentions at heart. A child’s behavior is a reflection of their parent’s style of discipline. There are various ethnicities that affect the types and amount of discipline used on kids. Spanking is a positive form of discipline that allow the parent to show authority. Spanking…

Megan Dodge Ms. T Child Development 3 February 1, 2017 Discipline or Abuse? According to a recent study nearly 62% of parents admit to spanking their children as a regular form of punishment. Parents continued to spank their children even though many experts have said for decades that spanking is ineffective and sometimes detrimental to a child's mental health. So why do parents still hit (spank) their children? The parent’s experiences as children often play a large role…

and it is not because they are bad. Young children do not fully understand or know what they are doing so spanking does not do much but hurt and confuse them. A study done by Gunnoe, Marjorie Lindner, and Carrie Lea Mariner found that spanking is to display a legitimate expression of parental authority or an act of impersonal aggression. Parents spank because they have always spanked. Spanking has become more of a cultural and social norm than a studied form of parenting. The studies done have…

School of Medicine, 74% of American parents spank their children (Kazdin and Benjet 100). Spanking has been a social norm for years accepted by parents. After thorough research, it is time to question…

Doctors highly encourage the use of nonabusive spanking or no spanking at all. However, doctors have found a reduced level of misbehavior in children who have been non abusively spanked (). In society spanking is often seen as abuse, and has gotten many parents in trouble with police due to complaints from neighbors or people in public who see a parent punishing their child. Parents should be allowed to punish their children how they see fit, and if spanking is done properly and the specific…

what your results are, what was interesting or surprising to you, and any other pertinent information. Is spanking a child as punishment ethical? To find out what people thought about this, we described a scenario to the the people we interviewed, and asked questions based off of the presented situation. We asked our audience to imagine that they are out shopping. Minding their own business, they overhear a young child, about six years old, crying to his parents. He wants a candy that he…