cautious when disciplining their children, even in public because of the backlash and arrest involved with this action. Parents who oppose the idea of spanking seem to assume that they have to be gentle and polite with their child to show that they love them dearly, even for their bad behavior over showing who the adult in the household is. Spanking should be done in a fair amount of force with injuring the child in a serious manner. This will not ruin their self-esteem, and it will not cause mental
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Punishments can be divided into many different categories but in this study 2 different types of child punishment were used and researched, corporal punishment or punitive discipline known to many as spanking, inductive punishment. Child disciplinary practices are a necessary part of child rearing. They involve training and helping children to develop judgment, a sense of boundaries, self-control, self-sufficiency, and a positive social conduct. For the purposes of this study, two classifications
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Corporal Punishment of Children HU4640: Ethics Corporal Punishment of Children Corporal punishment is the act of using physical violence to teach or discipline. Corporal punishment, as it relates to children, can be described as spanking to teach a lesson. When a child is acting out towards authority, it is the responsibility of the parent to use corporal punishment to discipline the child. The role of corporal punishment in society is to teach discipline and the understanding of consequences
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parent that they should not be spanking their child? How do we draw a line between what is acceptable and what is unacceptable and should the government step in and make an anti-physical punishment law? About 30 years ago this form of reprimanding a child was a norm. Many child psychologists and other health care professionals have been discussing and debating this very topic for many years now. In fact according to Dr. Gregory K Fritz’s article “Should Spanking a Child Be unlawful,” a survey
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APA: Some parents spank their child not only to punish him or her but to change their child’s behavior. Does spanking have that effect? Dr. Kazdin: Spanking is not a very effective strategy. It does not teach children new behaviors or what to do in place of the problem behavior. It is also not useful in suppressing the problematic behavior beyond the moment. Research indicates the rate of misbehavior does not decline, in fact, the problem behavior returns, even if the parent escalates the punishment
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There is a growing amount of literature that associates physical discipline with later child aggression, but spanking continues to remain a consistent experience for American children. The studies included in this bibliography explain the associations between aggression and spanking and the effects of punishment at various levels of severity and appropriateness. It is fair to say from a large collection of research conducted on the topic of child punishment and theory of child effects that there
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rearing. Many issues are controversial because there are supporting facts to both opinions. One major issue in today’s society is whether to breast or bottlefeed an infant. Another difficult issue is how to discipline a child. Some parents believe that spanking in certain situations is acceptable, and some view it as child abuse. Many parents believe religion is an essential part of growing into a moral person, and many do not. Family meals are important to some families, and unnecessary to others. Another
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Essay Writing: Should parents be able to spank their children? Spanking children has became an issue in the society. Should parents be able to spank their children? In my opinion, I against this issue because it may hurt the children’s self-esteem, violence may occur between them and also relationship between parents and children will be affected. First, children’s self-esteem may hurt if parents spank their children. When children do things wrong and parents spank them in the heat of the moment
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children. Some families use violence to teach their children because they think a light spanking has more effects than a thousand lectures. Besides, they might think it’s just a light hurt to their children, doesn’t make them too pained or leave trace in their skin. They just want to make their children to be scared and to never repeat the mistake again. However, they are wrong because even thought the light spanking or light violent action doesn’t make the child hurt, it leaves many worse psychological
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with emphasis on spanking vs. not spanking and its effects on children. Included are research from statistics, opposing views and arguments, advocates’ and Department of Children and Families’ position. The use of corporal punishment, or spanking, as a form of parental discipline is a controversial topic. Adults who remember being spanking by a parent for misbehaving may carry on this behavior as an acceptable form of punishment for their own children. Others believe spanking to be an outdated
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