For years the spanking debate has been a controversial topic. A topic that as the years progress seem to become more and more debatable. Some people argue that spanking is good for children because it teaches them to behave. Others, on the other hand, are strongly against spanking because in the long term it can impact children’s life negatively. On the spanking debate, religion, culture, and education seem to play big roles on whether people believe it is right or wrong to spank their children
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Spanking and beating a child, as a form of discipline, is a major topic and issue amongst families in the world today. Generations ago, spanking was considered the form of punishment, a child should receive, for bad behavior. In today’s world, people feel that spanking has become out of hand and has been seen as a practice of child abuse creating controversy around corporal punishment. In ‘On Spanking and Abuse’, Charles M. Blow talks about corporal punishment in relation to Adrian Peterson and
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Debate Paper Laura Hale-Steingrebe XBCOM/275 May 4, 2014 Dr. Hector Iweka Spanking versus child abuse The most common misconception that spanking is a form of child abuse has now affected the proper discipline of today’s children and young adults. Some parents are actually afraid to discipline their children in the same way they were brought up due to fears of child abuse claims. Are you one of those parents? It is surprising how many of us are. Is there a right or wrong way to discipline
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Some people believe spanking children causes them to have violent tendencies. This is absolutely untrue. In fact, I have actually seen more violence, by far, in those who were NOT spanked and not disciplined growing up. I believe the reason why is because from the time they have been able to walk, they have gotten whatever they wanted. The mind-set of “if I want it, I get it” has been instilled in them from the very beginning. As they grow, they encounter more people in the real world who do NOT
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The worst and painful discipline ever is spanking, but it is one also of the most debatable discipline methods and one of the oldest disciplinary actions throughout many decades. Spanking is a method of punishment in which an adult inflicts pain upon a child in response to their unsatisfactory behavior. At times, children forget to practice good behavior skills or they disobey their parent’s rules and commands, which results in being disciplined. As a frustrated parent continues to repeat commands
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discipline and punish there child, such as spanking, time out and taking privileges away. These methods will help a child build mutual respect, accountability, responsibility, self-discipline and problem solving. Studies show that the majority of parents who spank their children wish they didn’t (Moore). One of the least effective ways of punishing a child is spanking, “there is no research that shows spanking to be an effective form of discipline” (Moore). Spanking
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Schools, intuitions, prisons and the United States Military had practiced and used some kind of corporal punishment in the past. This was used to curb a negative behavior and spanking was widely accepted and used on children during the early and mid-years of The Baby Boomer Generation from 1945-1964. Corporal punishment was a common practice and a method to inflict plain to curb a negative behavior of a child or an adult. Those of us who are old enough hear stories from the Baby Boomer Generation
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definition of what the appropriate punishment is for their child. Over the past couple of years, a huge controversy had been made over parents using corporal punishment such as spanking to discipline their child. Corporal punishment is the use of physical force causing pain, but not wounds, as a means of discipline.” Spanking, rapping on the head and slapping are forms of corporal punishment which we do not classify as abuse. There are two factors to be taken into consideration when distinguishing
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children. Straus, Murray A. Piscataway, NJ, US: Transaction Publishers. (2001). xxv 317 pp. The book addresses the physical actions that the majority of Americans believe in using to discipline their children whether it be spanking or using other physical methods. The author shares a similar belief with me in stating that physically striking children could be a precursor to a lot of the violence in the world and serves only as an
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Is Corporal Punishment Needed to Discipline Children? PSY 101 Introduction to Psychology February 24, 2014 Child discipline is very important, without it, society would have many problems. The questions arise when we discuss what kind of child discipline is most effective. Times have changed and how our parents and grandparents were disciplined when doing unwanted behaviors would today be a severe child abuse. Even for middle age parents of today there is a contrast in the way corporal punishment
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