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    this topic? I believe the speaker chose to focus on this topic because it seems as if corporal punishment is a common parenting approach, with over 70% of families participating. The speaker wants to introduce and convince families to a better parenting style. Holden presents a paradoxical argument that the way to empower children and parents is to disempower parents. He touches on the subject of corporal punishment and its unintended side effects. He transitions from speaking about a “traditional”

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    The most misbehaved students.In John C. Calhoun Elementary is was proven that corporal punishment helped behave the most misbehaves students. This leads me to believe that it { Corporal Punishment }should be allowed. I think it should be allowed because it teaches kids to be respectful, teaches them to behave better, and it is a more effective discipline. Corporal punishment teaches kids to be respectful. In source A it is said “ Kids at the school sat the paddle definitely think twice about acting

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    The role of punishment in teaching. Punishment can be defined as part of disciplinary measure that can be inflicted on any person with the aim of creating positive behavioral change? In order words, punishment can be considered a sub-aspect of discipline. At the level of schools, “many parents and teachers see punishment as part of discipline” (D.H. Sailor, 2010), based on discipline. Some people however, do not see punishment as part of discipline. They strongly uphold that “discipline does not

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    for parents to use physical punishment on their children. Corporal punishment in schools has been banned in all the countries in Europe, South and Central America, China and Japan. The United States has outlawed corporal punishment from our prisons as cruel and inhumane treatment, as well as wife-beating, once thought to be the right of a husband. Why don’t we afford the same protection to our children? Our culture sanctions the use of corporal or physical punishment as a way for parents to discipline

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    When a man is unpleased with something his spouse says or does and he hits her, our society labels it as abuse. If a mother hits her child our society labels it as spanking. Whichever terminology is used to help define corporal punishment, it all means the same. The very idea of physical discipline is based on an adult using his or her larger physique and power to intimidate and force someone much smaller and weaker into a state of compliance (Rathis, 2007). In the western culture, they publically

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    schools have been debating whether or not to ban or allow corporal punishment in school. Schools do not know what to do, considering the 8th Amendment and students and their own children. Corporal Punishment is necessary in schools because it teaches kids not to get in trouble, teachers would feel empowered and will be listened to more often, and the final reason is that kids’ behavior will become better. One reason why corporal punishment is necessary is because it teaches kids to not get in trouble

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    (Straus & Stewart, 1999)”. This static shows that most American children in the past used to be spanked, and corporal punishment was almost universal in America. Since corporal punishment has many disadvantages, many experts have been persuading people not to use corporal punishment, and some countries, such as Sweden, have enacted laws to prohibit corporal punishment. However, corporal punishment is still common in America nowadays: “According to a 2013 study by Columbia University, 57 percent of mothers

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    Corporal Punishment Many parents argue whether or not corporal punishment is the best form of parenting. All around America, corporal punishment is and always has been accepted as the correct way to discipline children. More recently, the practice has been challenged, but despite much research, many Americans are still not convinced that there is a better way. Unlike drinking milk, smoking, and texting while driving, corporal punishment remains a silenced public health issue. Corporal punishment

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    Corporal punishment has been a subject of controversy discussed in the criminal justice system for many years. It is defined as the infliction of punishment on the body. Graeme Newman defends the idea that corporal punishment is an effective means of discipline. He strictly argues that this form of punishment is “the most humane punishment we have”. In his book Just and Painful: A Case for the Corporal Punishment of Criminals, Newman has two arguments that support his position: that the punishment

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    criminal and lawful battery? The answer, some maintain, is that there is not one. Corporal punishment, in this regard, is the physical punishment of children in the school system, more commonly referred to as “spanking”. This debated subject divides the “United” States. Twenty-two states permit physical punishment in the education system, and the other twenty-eight prohibit it (These States). Corporal punishment in the schooling system ought not to be sanctioned, as it jeopardizes children’s psychological

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