of New Hampshire, found that 90% of parents of three- and four-year-olds had struck their children and that 22% of parents of children under one year of age had also hit their children. The second study in 1997 found that 44% of mothers reported spanking
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The parent’s question reflects a common misunderstanding about child management. In his response Dr. Dobson emphasized that it is possible even easy to create a violent and aggressive child who has observed violent and aggression at home. If a child is routinely beaten by hostile, volatile parents, or if the child witnesses physical violence between angry adults, or even if the child feels unloved and unappreciated within his or her family, the child will not fail to notice how the game is played
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can affect the child’s long term mental behaviors, social norm, and the parental relationship. An article by John Fletcher titled, “Positive Parenting, not physical punishment” he addresses some of the concerns regarding corporal punishment. “Is spanking wrong? Clearly, hitting anyone in anger or when losing an argument is bad behaviour. To do this to children sets a bad example and may only teach them that violence is a means to getting their own way” (J.Fletcher 2012) By exploring the need of corporal
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Lenai Carraway December 17, 2012 Corporal punishment seems to be the most popular way in which people had chosen to punish their children in the past. Many parents were raised in homes that used spanking as the main form of discipline and can readily recount each time he, or she received a spanking for an offense, and even remember what kind of instrument was used to inflict the punishment. Today corporal punishment is a controversial subject, which leaves one wondering if corporal punishment
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her buttock, she looked at her mother in fear. John was next in line to receive the same spankings and looked as if he does not trust his mother because of the physical punishment applied to Stacey. John resisted their mother as she attempted to pull him closer. After a couple minutes passed of their mother struggling to give John his spankings, she eventually gave him his spankings. After the spankings were over, tears slowly went down both Stacey and John’s face.
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Unit 10 Research Paper Part 6: Final Draft of Research Paper Course Objectives and Learning Outcomes * Demonstrate mastery of the writing process, from invention to revision. * Apply principles of composition to evaluate the effectiveness of multiple rhetorical strategies. * Explain and employ the concepts of purpose, audience and tone in relation to compositions. * Locate, analyze, evaluate, and use information from a variety of sources, including the ITT Tech Virtual Library
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it is in harmony with nature itself.” (Dobson, 2015) On the other side there are many people who claim that corporal punishment is not the best choice. Corporal punishment may become abuse, it can make a child more aggressive and violent, and “spanking may seem to ‘work’ at first, it loses its impact after a while.” (The American Academy of Pediatrics, 2015) According to American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry there are many different approaches to help change a child’s behavior
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Violence Breeds Violence Smacking children makes them more disciplined, ‘more successful’ and more resilient. On the other hand, it makes them more aggressive, more likely to be abusive as adults and less able to socialise and interact with others. “Did you know that the UN Secretary-General's Study on Violence Against Children has recommended full prohibition of all corporal punishment of children, in all settings, in all nations?” [1]. Historically, smacking children was considered to be
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punishment for just about any offensive minor or major was a spanking. Common in the time I know and even more common in my mothers’ time as she was raised in a very Christian, “Spare the rod spoil the child” type household. I hated getting spankings and every time it happened it made me hate my mother a little bit. It’s not that she was the only one to dish out punishments; my father spanked us as well, although he did prefer his belt to hand spanking. But it was the minor differences that made me not hate
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“Downfalls of Spanking your Children” Parents who spank their children to get the child to listen or cooperate are not taking the appropriate action of disciplining their child. The end results will lead to an angry child. Three negative results from spanking your child as a form of discipline are; the child might feel unwanted or not loved by parent, and will become violent towards other children or adult peers, the child might feel angry and confused with parent, and might not fully understand
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