Are children humans deserving of respect? Do they deserve to be hit, slapped, or made to cry because they?

Question

triggered feelings of upset and anger in their adult parents?

Answer 1

Children are absolutely deserving of respect. Just because they are children does mean they are not human.
Children are at the most impressionable time in their life and while some adults forget what it was like to be a child... it is a learning experience and being a child should be imaginitive and fun. Children should not be subjected to physical or even emotional deliberate pain. Even pain that is a part of life.. like death and divorce... it is an adult's job to be sensitive with topics like those.

Answer 2

Children need to be respected as human beings so they can learn respect.
Children do not deserve to be hit, slapped or made to cry because of their adult parents' feelings.
An adult needs to be concerned with their own behaviours and not take their feelings out on a child.
An adults feelings is not a child's problem to fix.

Answer 3

Yes, children ARE humans and do derserve some leval of respect. There is a huge difference in hitting, slapping, or making someone cry.
A good parent will make their child follow rules and enforce their rules to keep anyone from getting hurt.
Once again, i've NEVER hit my children. I HAVE spanked them, but NEVER out of anger or my own feelings of upset.
I look out for my childrens well being and have a set of rules that they are to follow.
I also don't believe in "counting to three" for a child before enforceing behavior because it's giving teaching them that there's a time limit to follow rules.
People really jack their kids entire lives up by allowing them to be disrespectful or defiant.
When they are adults, they will know how to listen to their teachers and bosses and hopefully won't end up in jail because I did MY part in teaching them how to be good adults.
I was spanked as a child and it was never out of anger. I remember each spanking and why I recived it.
Perhaps that has something to do with why i'm a good citizen and haven't had to hide anything about myself from the law or anyone else.
My parents used a belt - now that I think is a bit harsh. However, like I said. I know what I did to recive the punishment and I never did it again.
I have a better relationship with both of my parents than most. I know they loved me because they cared enough about me to take the time to teach me and because the expected more from me.
Hitting ANYONE much less a child is abuse no doubt about it. However, "hitting" is the result of anger.
Spanking CAN and SHOULD be done out of love.

Answer 4

Yes, children deserve respect just like adults do, and they don't deserve to be hit in any abusive manner, I suggest doing some sort of other punishment, like time outs would be much better than hitting a child.

Answer 5

Of course not. They learn by what they see and experience. I've raised 7 children plus several foster kids without hitting them. (Okay... in all honesty I probably 'lost it' and smacked some of them once--- but I knew it was wrong and apologized to the child) We never used violence--physical or verbal-- as a punishment or deterrent to behavior.
I could walk into any store with all the kids---they could visit people and be welcomed back. They were well-behaved and respectful because they were treated like valuable loved people.
I respected them and talked to them--- sometimes if they needed it, they'd have age-appropriate "time out" in a corner.
As you do to them, they will do to others and to you!
You wouldn't hit your friend just because they disagreed with you and were smaller than you would you? Why hit a child?

Answer 6

Children are humans too and deserve love and respect. They do not deserve to hit or slapped.

Answer 7

I dont think its right to hit someone that cant fight back for themselves. In the real world when an adult says the wrong thing or does the wrong thing do you just go and slap or hit them, I dont think so. There is many other nonviolent ways to discipline children. You have to show children respect otherwise how will they learn to respect themselves or other people.

Answer 8

Everyone, child or adult, deserves respect. Why would you think a child would not? Would you want to be hit, slapped, etc?

Answer 9

Children are humans deserving of respect, but children must be made to realize that they need to respect their elders. Children should not be slapped but they should definately be spanked.

Answer 10

Its not always that they anger the parents, if I hit my son everytime I was mad at him, well.... he would be in pain alot!
If you are talking about spanking, I don't spank because I'm upset, I spank because my son needs discipline for disobeying me or for doing something very very bad.
If you are talking about abuse, I don't know why parents abuse there children, its disturbing and disgusting and the parents need to learn how to control there anger and step back and realize what they are doing to there children, the babies that they brought to life, they are abusing.... ugh its sick....