Brianna Ascencio
ENGWR 300 T/Th 7:30
Dr. Muñoz
November 19, 2013
Research Paper
Physical Punishment and the Effects A fearful child walks slowly, but carefully to his house from school. Walking home feels faster than usual and before he knows it, he walks into the front door as quietly as possible. He gets a sort of relief when he finds out he is home alone. Seconds later, he gets that turned feeling in his stomach again. He knows he awaits for the worst. What he has done wasn’t so bad, but it’s enough for him to know he will probably get a spanking hard enough to make him cry of pain. The child awaits in fear as he counts down the minutes till his father arrives, knowing that the worst is yet to come. Spanking may be best
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Corporal punishment also has ties with health issues in a child’s current age or future. “It may put a child at risk for depression and anger management problems (Watkins 24).” Also, the child who is abused becomes easily detached from the parent who hits them often. Using corporal punishment on children sometimes brings out the wrong message, giving children the okay to hit and act out in violence. Children learn through example and when they see that hitting is okay, they learn that lashing out in violence to respond to frustrations is normal. Spanking has showed that many children accumulate mental health problems or severely injured leading to death.The story of football star, Adrian Peterson’s two-year old son made breaking headlines when the child was suffering from injuries associated with consistent abuse. The child died two days later after suffering from head injuries. The innocent child’s killer was reported to have a history of domestic incidents. If he has had previous history of domestic violence, why was he allowed with a child that wasn’t even his own? Why hadn’t he learned a lesson from previous incidents associated with domestic violence? With such a tragic story, the government needs to partake with enforcing stronger punishments towards these mindless acts. Stories like these may have
They claim that spanking only teaches the child to fear their parents instead of respecting them. It can be dangerous because children will grow up thinking it's okay to hit other people to get their way, which is what parents do. Spanking can lead to violent behaviors later in their lives. "Corporal punishment is of limited effectiveness and has potentially deleterious side effects," American Academy of Pediatrics has said in a policy statement. In a 2002 study, published in the Psychology Bulletin, said that even though corporal punishment can make a child obey their parents in the short run, it can also be the link to long-term problems such as mental disorders and behavioral
In particular, when a child is struck for hurting another child, it actually shows that through aggression that they can become the aggressor and get what they want, usually a ‘child is more likely to imitate the aggressive behaviour in the long-term.’ (Gershoff, 2010). Actions like this tend to result in abusive behaviour flowing through to teenage years and even adulthood as it allows them to get exactly what they want. The use of corporal punishment by parents is used with the intention of making a child change their actions immediately and to reduce it occurring again, although this has been proven to be only be as effective as almost any other measure. The other aspect of psychological changes are the likes of mental health issues, given the violent aspects of corporal punishment. Studies have found that ‘the more frequently or severely children are spanked or hit, the more likely they are to have symptoms of depression or anxiety.’ (Gershoff, 2010). The circumstances around the development of these issues being caused by the action of punishing a child in this manner suggests that the best scenario is to not allow it to take place anymore. There are so many other options to use when disciplining a child that for these to still be considered pliable even with these dangers is not reasonable. Studies also suggest that the use of corporal
There are many different ways to disciplining a child and corporal punishment is one of the main ones. Corporal punishment means the intention of giving pain to the body for purposes of punishment and it includes pinching, shaking, hitting with objects and forcing to stand for long time. Family researchers define corporal punishment as the use of physical force to cause children to experience pain but not injury for the purposes of correction and control of behavior. This essay is going to talk about how corporal punishment affect the child and parent relationship.
There has been a study that 90% of parents who have toddlers spank or use some other form of corporal punishment, which is outrageous. Even though the numbers have declined form the age of five, in the article it states that adults still remember being punished in their teen age years. It goes into detail of how the mistreatment of children can really harm them without the care giver really putting much thought to it. The generality of the situation puts children at harm and they are trying to conduct studies to show that corporal punishment leads to a risk of developing mental health and social relationships later in their life. Also they can have an increased risk of having depression, suicidal thoughts, alcohol abuse, physical abuse of their own children, and also can lead to wife beating. It really shows how corporal punishment puts the child at
This act promotes youthful violence. When a child has to receive corporal punishment, it can hurt them in the long run when they grow-up. “A lot of these these students come from violent homes, and kids see this as another act”. (Source B) Some kids that are innocent but still have to be punished for something that might be “petty”, Students might think this as an an abusive act.
Furthermore, some people believe there are no ramifications to physically punishing children. Punishing children in a physical way teaches them that any and all problems can be dealt with in a physical manner. This line of thinking can lead to violent altercations and violent thoughts. Children who are raised with parents who use corporal punishment are more likely to use corporal punishment on their children.
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
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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.
The research on disciplinary spanking is misleading. There are three major criticisms of the research against spanking. The first is correlational which does not prove causation. All of the evidence against spanking has been based on correlations. Most of Gershoff and Grogan-Kaylor’s evidence is based on “cross-sectional” correlations. These correlations only consider data collected during one time period without considering the previous state of the research participants. This kind of correlation technique superficially makes spanking appear to cause aggression since the children spanked more often are the children who were more aggressive during the same time period. This is a problem for research on spanking because there is no way to tell what came first in cross-correlational research so there is no way to tell what affects what. Even if infrequent spanking is correlated with better outcomes than overly frequent spanking, that does not prove that zero spanking is best. Every child is different. There is not a certain amount of times a child can be spanked in order for them to change behavior. Only 4 of their 75 studies were limited to two open-handed swats to the buttocks for child defiance. The other 71 studies lumped together all “spanking” regardless of how it was implemented and why it was used. Not all spanking is the same, some is stronger
Corporal punishment is wrong because it causes long-term negative effects on students. If a student receives a paddling as a punishment it could cause serious problems for that student mentally and physically. One example of this is in an article called Should Corporal Punishment Be Used in K-12 Schools?. It says “frequent use of corporal punishment leads to a higher risk for anxiety, depression, substance abuse, stress, and other mental health”. These would be dangerous for a child’s health. In serious cases this could even lead to suicidal thoughts. Not only can corporal punishment affect a child's mental health, it can also have an affect on their performance in school. Another example from an article says, “Students who experience corporal punishment in
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It was silent, too silent. The only thing you could hear was the air conditioning running like white noise in the background. The students were focused on the test. “Ding”, a cell phone goes off. A small noise but a big distraction. Cell phones in classrooms are a leading cause of a lot of problems in schools. The solution to those problems is obvious, students should not be allowed to have cellphones in class because they sanction cheating, provide unnecessary distractions, and helps bullies.
Discipline is one of the basic things a child learns from his parents before he or she faces the outside world to learn more about life as a whole. Teaching this trait can depend on how the parent shows it to their child and how they explain the importance of having this trait both in and out of their homes. Misbehaving children cannot be avoided as they are curious little beings and they have a tendency to explore. But there are some parents, even teachers, who do not tolerate misbehaving and they resort to corporal punishments such as spanking to make sure the child never forgets how painful it is to misbehave as they will remember the punishment entailed to it and become more disciplined. However, not all children would understand the
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