The Effects Of Corporal Punishment On Children

My husband tells the tales of discipline and punishment during his childhood. His father, mother, and grandparents routinely enforced strict rules with harsh punishment such as being struck with a belt or switch. I have heard similar stories of near-beatings from my African American friends through the years. African American comedians regularly incorporate a history of corporal punishment into their stand-up routines. My African American high school students also tell of parents with harsh consequences for disobeying. I want to know why African American families implement corporal punishment seemingly more often than white families. If behavior standards are so high and punishment so harsh, are black students more successful?

long term, children will have the autism when the fear affects their cognitive development. As well, the anxiety will have an impact on children’s brains. It can make children over-stressed and cause the reduction of their memory, emotions, and self-control. IQs of children ages 2 to 4 who were not spanked were 5 points higher four years later than the IQs of those who were spanked. The IQs of children ages 5 to 9 years old who were not spanked were 2.8 points higher four years later than the IQs of children the same age who were spanked (University of New Hampshire 2009). Spanking is not an efficient and safe way to affect children’s physical and mental abilities.

While reading Cleverley & Phillips ' Visions of Childhood I found that many views of the past relating to corporal punishment have changed significantly. During my readings I read things that instantly stood out to me. The first being how many issues and their solutions revolved around religion. John Wesley, was the founder of the Methodist Movement, and he believed that children were born with sin and that it was the parental duty to discipline the unruly child, starting at an early age. During this time period, corporal punishment was a common practice. Wesley used reference to the Bible verse in Proverbs to declare, “Spare the rod, spoil the child”, (Cleverly and Phillips, 1986) in turn parents believed they were doing God’s will with their harsh punishments.

I believe this article is a credible and trustworthy because it defines the negative effects of spanking a child while using other credible survey results. The article stated that "A 2014 UNICEF study found that about 80 percent of parents spank their children worldwide." This shows that the articles used a primary source to back up their information. Another example is of a use of a primary source in the article is "In the United States, about half of all parents spank their children at least some of the time, according to a survey conducted by the Pew Research Center in December 2015." A third examples of uses of primary sources that make this article credible when the article states "Though some studies suggest kids who are spanked may

It’s uncertain at this point the extent of physical and psychological damages related to the use of spanking as corrective methods. It’s unclear how high the number of children are affected by this practice. Any proliferation of these transgression is likely to stretch far beyond the boundaries of the immediate consequences that we can perceive such as physical deformations and or development of antisocial behaviors are some of the most common by-product of these practices.

In the past research has mainly focused on the negative effects of corporal punishment on children only recently has it begun to focus on potential factors that influence individual perceptions of corporal punishment. This study aimed to investigate the effects of SDO on an individuals perception of corporal punishment. In this study they hypothesized that people with high SDO levels would see more child punishment as legitimate uses of parental authority than those with lower levels SDO. For this study they used a questionnaire with scenarios like: “Seven-year-old (five-year-old or thirteen-year-old) Emily was arguing with her younger sister, fighting over a toy. Emily ended up calling her younger sister an inappropriate name. Her father was

In the 1900’s most parents spanked their children, but should parents still do so? In 2000 only 41 percent of kids were spanked, and I believe that this generation is full of evil and bad kids. I believe that if kids are spanked they will have more respect for everyone.

“ More than 3.6 million reports of Maltreatment”.People may think that abuse and corporal punishment has the same effect on a child the same way discipline does. The effect of abuse and corporal punishment on a child life is negative while the effect of discipline is positive.

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

Before discussing the effects of corporal punishment (CP) on children’s outcomes a distinction between CP and physical abuse (PA) must be established. Corporal punishment refers to behaviours that should not result in “significant injury” (Gershof, 2002). Straus, (1994) defines CP as “the use of physical force with the intention of causing a child to experience pain but not injury for the purposes of correction or control of the child’s behaviour”. Whereas, physical punishment, intentional behaviour or over-discipline that increases the chance of or leads to the infliction of injury can be classed as PA (Gershof, 2002; NCCNI (2000)

While physically punishing a misbehaving child brings instant results by making the child complacent, the overall effect on the child is actually more negative. The child understands their actions caused them to get punished but this doesn’t actually teach the child a reason for behaving correctly, only that they did something wrong. Furthermore, it encourages aggression and violence because it models aggression and violence. “Spanking or slapping a child is an act of violence, just as slapping a wife is an act of violence” (Straus & Donnelly, 2001, p. XiX). I’ll elaborate by expanding on a scenario discussed in my English class of two siblings, an older brother and a younger sister. The siblings are playing together with one toy, when the girl decides to take the toy and play with it by herself. The boy attempts to take the toy back but the sister refuses; upset by this, he slaps his sister

Is corporal punishment needed to discipline children? This is a very controversial question that is often debated. Even with as many arguments as there are against corporal punishment, there are also arguments for such punishment for children. This is something that tends to happen in both home and school settings. This type of punishment is very hurtful to the child and can have lasting effects on the child throughout their life. It can cause damage to relationships. It can also cause many different psychological problems as they get older. While some may not agree, there are other ways to discipline children that can be just as effective without causing any harm.

It is a common enough scene, something you have probably experienced with your own children countless times. They are being loud, fighting, or just generally doing something they are not supposed to be doing. So you spank them. Maybe even yell. You’re frustrated, at your whit’s end. You just want them to stop, want them to learn and make better choices. Only, after spanking them, their behavior worsens. The effect you thought spanking them would have is not working. They act out more, get more aggressive. A debate has risen, as scenarios such as this become more talked about. Some say corporal punishment is damaging psychologically and negatively impacts childhood development. So the question has to be asked: “Is spanking bad?”

It is generally believed that children are punished because adults want to teach them something. The whole purpose of punishment, in the case of children, is intended to change their behavior. Adults generally think that they should do whatever it takes to get children to behave in an acceptable way. In order to get the children to behave thus, adults often punish them physically—that is, through causing pain. It is my opinion that physical punishment of children is an overreaction and can never be justified. First of all, it is a very thin line between punishment and abuse of children. They have been too many cases where adults, claiming that they intend to “reform” their children end up abusing them. Children have been burn and whipped senseless and in many other ways treated like enemies. We all know that once an adult loses his temper, he is liable to forget that what he has before him or her is a child who has committed a wrong, usually out of not understanding, and not a crime. Emotional scars are left on children who are disciplined with pain. Many criminals that we read about have turned out to be those who had been abused as children. They become immune pain and to feelings for others. So what the adults does to a child when he is punishing him, physically. Is actually helping to create a criminal—unless he, the adult, is in control and he is able to punish without

Article Review: Corporal Punishment and Child Behavioral and Cognitive Outcomes through 5 Years of Age: Evidence from a Contemporary Urban Birth Cohort Study.