Inmense Effects of Physical Punishment

In modern society, physical discipline is still considered a somewhat suitable way of teaching children how to behave in life, though it is decreasing in popularity as time goes on. When using physical discipline, the parent should never have the intention of causing harm, they should always have the intention of being constructive. Whether or not physical discipline results in a beneficial outcome is dependent upon how it is used. If it is the only, or primary, source of discipline, the outcome is generally unfavorable. Also, as said in an article by Larzelere and Kuhn, if the discipline is too violent, and results in the child becoming injured, the child is not going to retain the intended lesson (1). An example of non-abusive physical discipline is conditional spanking. Conditional spanking "is defined as about two open-hand swats to the buttocks when a parent is not angrily out of control" (Larzelere, Kuhn 1). This type of punishment "teaches a child to cooperate with the milder disciplinary tactic, thereby making spanking less necessary in the future" (Larzelere, Kuhn 1) . When parents decide to use physical discipline, the primary intention of the parent should always be that the punishment is being "used in such a way that [it] reduces the need to use it in the future" (Larzelere, Kuhn 1). A parent should never hit a child

“Physical punishment of children: Can we continue to accept the status quo?” by Kim Oates is a scholarly source found in the Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health. The author of this journal argues that discipline with physical punishment is not only inefficient, but it also causes problems in the emotional and behavioral development of children. He follows by providing practical forms of disciplining such as: removing privileges, teaching by example, having constant supervision, setting appropriate rules, and being consistent. Kim Oates states that those parents who use physical punishment to discipline their children, likely experienced it during their childhood and are usually unaware of these other methods of discipline. Oates included

Violence affects a healthy family’s relationship, state of mind and well-being, in other words, it’s normal functions. Because of violence, children are forced to endure and cope with mental, physical and emotional trauma leading to a display of impacts on health, development, and wellbeing. The effects build up over time and can impact on every aspect of their life.  How many children and innocent lives must suffer from something unnecessary? Imagine walking into a home late at night to find a child hiding in a corner, with a bloody face and cuts all around their body saying they were self-inflicted or making up other silly excuses like falling down the stairs out of extreme fear. Up to 75% of all acts of domestic violence occurs between the ages 18-24. No child should ever see domestic violence as normal because the moment that happens a future perpetrator has been born. We need to take a stand and refuse to let domestic violence become something we ignore.

Many children are victims of violence; this violence may be physical, or emotional, direct or indirect. In certain situations, the child’s experience

For children living in violent and unsafe homes, they are learning that hitting and verbally abusing someone is the proper way of communicating love. According to Holt, Buckley & Whelan (2008), “as they learn a generational cycle begins in which children grow up to be victims and abusers as adults.” The effects that domestic violence has on children are heartbreaking. Some of the major effects are; increased risk of poor health, poor education, isolation, learned helplessness and decreased satisfaction in such family environment.

Here it goes the same dispute. The same argument parents, psychologists and teachers have been having for years. Does physical punishment have a negative effect on children? Physical punishment does have long lasting effects. Corporal punishment introduces aggression to children and can lead to higher aggression for kids at school. Kids can not always distinguish between the physical aggression used as punishment and not acceptable physical violence like hitting and pushing. Children that are physically punished are a lot more likely to abuse their own kids. By informing parents, expecting parents, and just the public in general of the negative effects it has on the children outways the positives. Spreading the information there are better positive ways to get the end result of teaching kids right from wrong without all the negative effects.

Physical abuse can have varying effects on people. It could just lead to a cut or pain on the body, but it could also lead to more lasting things, like post-traumatic stress disorder. But, here are many effects of physical abuse. On children, the effects can be anger and hostility, sleep distuption, stuttering, and excessive crying. It can also cause things such as fractures or broken bones, scars, or drugs or alcohol problems of victims of any age.

Physical abuse is a violent way of maltreating an individual. When it happens to young girls, it impacts them negatively. The girl more often are brutally beaten by either their parents, other close family members or their peers, which, in turn, come to respond the same way after some time of building up the hurt. Physical abuse from parents or close family members make young girls emotionally troubled and cognitively disturbed. The aspect of them not doing anything about it, results them into copying what they see because they are used to it. Moreover, they see abusing somoen physically as the answer to their problems or getting what they want. It is in this way that young girls as well as boys tend to become brutal, violent and aggressive, which are acts that make them deviant as well as delinquent. Mersky, Topitzes & Reynolds (2012) state that developmental psychopathology holds that early childhood traumatic experiences tend to have deep intense impacts on functioning because the later development of a person is shaped by how earlier developmental elements were integrated. A very young girl witnessing physical abuse or being physically abuse is traumatic to her because she is young. The effect of this act makes the girl continue growing up with the bad thoughts and feelings and whenever a person reacts negatively towards her, the results are committing a

One report shows that “physical punishment doesn’t improve children’s behavior in the long term.” Spanking your kids leads to many negative outcomes including mental health problems. There is even a greater risk for kids to have a serious injury when they are physically abused (“Discipline vs. Abuse”, 2016). Parents are likely to hit when they are angry. Being angry makes people go crazy. Parents could only mean to hit the kid a little, but end up really hurting the kid because they were angry.

Spanking is an ineffective method for disciplining children as it both validates violence and creates antisocial behaviour while failing to teach a child why their actions were wrong. As some parents continue to utilize spanking, the children often internalize many negative side effects. They learn to “legitimatize violence”2 thus carrying these issues into other interpersonal relationships. Using their caregivers as models, they are more likely to hit others such as peers & siblings “as means of resolving their conflicts.”1 Ironically, this is exactly what some parents are trying to eliminate. Other children may become increasingly antisocial. From the perspective of a child, those who are supposed to protect them chose to hurt them instead.

Many parents say physical punishment works on improving behavior or teaching a child a lesson. These parents think this is the only way to discipline a child. So as years pass more parents tend to use this strategy to discipline their own children. According to the Health Update, “one of four 10-16 year olds or 6.2 million children is a victim of assault or abuse every year” also “one-third of the children surveyed said that they were assaulted or abused or that someone had tried to victimize them in the previous year” (Lawton 10). Physical abuse is not effective for any child. Another statistic according to the Public Health article wrote “nearly half of abused and

Many studies have come out with negative effects that can come about from using many forms of corporal punishment. As parents we need to ask ourselves are we able to control ourselves when we are upset at our kids? Are we able to be fair to our kids? Can the things we do to our children come back and turn out to be used against us and others? “Corporal punishment

At the time I had extremely soft hands and my 8-year-old self, incapable of enduring pain, would burst into tears on the first stroke. I was weak. My classmates all experts in the field of endurance would collect 10 strokes without a single tear, the only indication of pain a wince or sharp intake of breathe. I was one of the weird ones in the class; after all, from age 4, beatings were introduced as a form of punishment in schools with expensive British Schools the exception. My classmates wondered why I was so fragile, back then I didn’t know. But now when I think of that question I flash back to the moment I began to truly fear beatings, the moment I knew they hurt. Someone close to me, an authority figure I thought I could trust, instigated this moment. In most of the world, the cycle of physical abuse starts with an abusive parent or family member but not in Nigeria. In Nigeria, it begins with the teachers. In Nigeria, teachers are more likely to beat you on a daily basis than your parents are. This is the effect of corporal punishment; it ruins the innocence of children. Corporal punishments are vaccines to pain meant to prepare children for the pain in life before it actually comes. Corporal punishment works by introducing small doses of pain that can’t harm children but causes children to develop methods to deal with pain and memory mechanisms to remind children of what method to

“Wah, wah, wahh!” Imagine hearing the sound of a leather belt being brutally struck against the back-side of five-year old boy whose mother grew impatient with his “playful ways” The ruthless actions of a parent can be traumatizing to a young toddler that barely knows right from wrong. More action should be taken to prohibit more disruption in children 's lives. Physical abuse can leave numerous of careless scars on the body which can lead to permanent damage. Parenting is everything to the development of a child’s life especially as they grow, learning what they are taught from home, school, and every day surroundings. When it comes to discipline many people are subjective towards where the line is drawn. Discipline easily becomes abuse when it leads to injury or any harm of their life.

Throughout the course of history, millions of children have been victims of physical abuse; it has been shown that the effects of this abuse can profoundly influence ones mental and physical health in the span of his or hers life.