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    Parents should eliminate the use of physical punishment as a form of reinforcement for children because it could possibly lead into the act of child abuse; instead, parents should try alternate methods for teaching children acceptable behavior. I was recently in a very deep conversation with a friend (whose name will remain nameless) in where she recalled her parent’s discipline measures. She went into great detail as to explain how a simple spanking quickly spiraled into forms of abuse that led

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    Since the birth of the nation, Americans have debated about the topic of spanking children for discipline. Parent’s waver back and forth for a while it is okay and expected that they will discipline the children by using corporal punishment. Then over the years everything changes and now it’s no longer acceptable. It will be the center of many heated debates and will continue to be so as long as we have parents and as long as they raise children. In the long run parent’s will find out if spanking

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    When it comes to disciplining your children the question that continues to come up is, to spank or not to spank? The argument on whether or not to use physical punishment has been going on for decades. It’s still one of the biggest controversies and debates among parents and just about everyone has a strong and emotional opinion. One of the problems with spanking is how people define it. If you were to ask people what is spanking, each person would define it differently. Baumrind defined spanking

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    to correct their child’s wrong behavior? Is it morally correct to punish a child in this manor? Punishment takes place universally, meaning it happens in places all over the world. Punishment is characterized as a type of training that is often used to correct a child from repeating the act of doing something wrong beyond the first action of the wrongdoing. There are many forms and types of punishment that parents may chose to use on their child, however spanking has recently been brought up as possibly

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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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    As we have learned in the first module, in every state in the US, the law allows parents to use “reasonable” corporal punishment against their children as long as they do not inflict dangerous, long-term physical damage. We also know that each state has their own child abuse statues. After doing some research, the Texas statue states that parents have a legal right to “responsibly discipline” their child as long as the force is reasonable. However any intentional physical contact that causes bodily

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    Child Discipline: training to act in accordance with rules; drills. there are two ways of discipline , corporal punishment which uses force as a way of discipline and positive discipline which includes positive reinforcement, taking away privileges, rewarding, and timeouts. A current controversy on child discipline was seen in 2014 with Adrian Peterson when his son was found with bruises and injuries. Adrian patterson said that his discipline was positive parenting. When this case was brought to

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    Let me ask you this do you think grounding is an effective punishment? For those of you that say “no it’s to harsh,” or something of that sense let me just say you're wrong. It’s effective because it shows your child discipline and that you have superiority over your child. Also to show your child that there are consequences for everything he or she does, but it simply teaches your child that life is just not fair. Besides we all know how brutal it is to climb the ladder of success. Consequences

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    American society has debated this issue of corporal punishment since the 1950s since the nuclear family was marketed to the American public. Historically children and reproduction of the human species was for survival a husband and his wife would have a child to work on their land or in a factory to bring additional income. The thought of loving their child was not shown like present day. Depending on the families social position they might be able to provide their children with more if they were

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    the topic of where the line is drawn between discipline and abuse. Oxford dictionary defines corporal punishment as: “physical punishment, such as caning or flogging.” On one hand, many parents argue that spanking or other corporal punishments are not abusive because it teaches respect and consequences for bad behavior. However, on the other hand, others maintain that spanking and other corporal punishments are harmful because it does not teach respect but instead inspires fear in the child and does

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