Does hitting your kids as punishment child physical abuse?

Answer 1

Depends, are you giving them a spank on the bottom or a slap across the face? I don't believe that a spank on the bottom is considered child abuse. But to hit your child or slap them is.

Answer 2

you know, parents spanked their kids for years, with results, until the wonderful Dr. Spock sent this generation of parents down a terrible misguided path. We now have a generation of young people that spew some the most foul language,(alot of times it's towards the parents) feel the need to take guns to school to settle their problems, kids that don't know discipline. Ask yourself, what if they took all the murders and just slapped them on the hand and said now don't do that any more and made them set in the cell for a week......what do think that would to our murder rate?
I'm sorry I've tried that standing the kids in the corner thing...for some things it works, minor infractions. But when you really want to send the message home for something major, I feel a 3 or 4 good firm whipping is needed, they need to know what they did was wrong, and there are consiquences for their actions. I sorry standing in a corner does nothing but take away a few minutes of their time. I actually had a woman tell me one time, when i mentioned that i had upped the standard time in the corner, from 5 mins to 15mins, because the 5 wasn't even faze'n my 5 and 6 yr old, that that was inhumane....come on, thats the whole of purpose of punishment!!..a little suffering for their crime. Mind you major flogging and out right beating or taking out your your anger for other things is wrong.Our children need guidance. We need to be parents and teachers for our children, not buddies.

Answer 3

In my opinion, try to avoid hitting children as punishment. In some children, it can make them fear you or give them further motivation to stray away from you to commit more naughty acts. Use other forms of punishment, like a time-out or grounding. Use hitting only in extreme cases. If it can't be avoided, do not hit too hard or too much. A light hit could be argued as non-abusive and be legally safe. I don't know the legality behind the matter, but if you follow these guidelines, you should be alright.

Answer 4

I'm not going to say yes and I'm not going to say no but what I will say is the best punishment is taking away favourite things that they like and ground them from there friends. Physical punishment will do nothing but damage the person they are becoming and what about their future? I know that kids make you totally frustrated at times. I have a 13 year old son and he is so disrespectful it's not even funny but I am just very consistent and stick to the punishment that I serve him with and then he gets it but if you give in your looking for problems and if you let them get away with everything and just put your foot down when your getting worn out that's also a problem. You need to show them who's boss but not with hands on.

I don't mean to sound offencive in anyway but I just know how very frustrating parenting can be.

I hope the best for you and let me tell you the consistency thing is very hard at first but when they finally get it, it makes things alot easier for you.

Take care and good luck.

Answer 5

Ok let me tell you I am from the old school spanking your kids is not a formal part of abuse.It's a buse when you slap them hard in the face or hit them with somthing but spanking them on the butt dosen't call for abuse.People need to realize the dofference between abuse and spanking and or beating.I got spanked and turned out alright.I am 53 years old.And I grew up beleiveing that if you spare the rod it will truly spoil the child or they will kick your behind.The rod dosen't nesssasary mean a rod it means keep them straight.Some folks have taken it to the extreme and that is why it is now illegal to spank kids.But look how they are turning our these days.

Answer 6

A spanking here & there is fine, but hitting them? That's considered child abuse.
Find some other form of punishment. Your kids are smaller than you & you're going to end up really hurting them.
Ground them from the Internet, cell phones, toys...etc., but do not put your hands on them.

Answer 7

It depends on where you hit them, how hard you hit them, what you use to hit them, etc.etc. If you only hit them once, say on the bum, then it probably isn't. This is what I would consider abuse:

*hitting them repeatedly with a closed or open fist or with objects (like extension cords, belts, switches, shoes, bats, kitchen spoons, brooms, etc.)
*striking them in the face or about the head and shoulders
*leaving marks - welts, bruises, cuts, black eyes, broken/chipped teeth, fractures/sprains, etc.
*drawing blood
*beating them to the point where they cannot stop crying (this means that you've crushed their soul...NOT a good thing!)
*throwing them
*hurting them in sensitive areas (genitals, kidneys, neck)

That's all I can think of right now. We have to remember that as adults, we are the ones who set the tone in the household. Children are precious in +God's+ sight.

Answer 8

Depends on what you mean by hitting. If you mean beating with a belt or stick is what you mean then my answer is NO! But if you mean a swat on the bottom with a rolled up newspaper then I see no harm nor child abuse. Some times you need to get their attention, the noise of newspaper is what does the trick, it does not hurt.

Answer 9

Yup, your gonna get beat up in this area for stating actual punishment of a dogs. Now, i'm going to show you how to already know what i think of. I too become raised in a international the place actual punishment of canines become the customary prepare. We, I, did no longer comprehend to any extent further advantageous. It become no longer a count number of folk did no longer love their canines, or have been desirous to be cruel, it become in basic terms they way issues have been accomplished. no longer in easy terms canines, heck young babies generally have been given a robust smack for appearing up. I undergo in strategies getting beat with a professionally made paddle, in school, state sanctioned toddler abuse! yet decrease back too canines. i think of what has replaced is that study has shown that canines at the instant are not young babies (duh). What I advise is we've a extra advantageous understanding of ways canines think of, and learn, and how a p.c.. chief runs a p.c.. and keeps order. there's a distinction between actual punishment, and actual correction. each and every so often you need to use unfavorable education movements, whether it is going to be extra a tutor of rigidity, and generate a sprint bit concern in the dogs, then the extremely infliction of soreness. Now with the help of tutor of rigidity, I advise I even have growled at my canines, shown my teeth, and took what the dogs is familiar with to be a scuffling with stance, (to the dogs, like lowering your head, shifting slowly and intentionally). in the event that they nonetheless do no longer comply, i'm going to cost them and yell. It scares them. i'm confident some might evaluate that cruel. yet, in view that studying somewhat extra approximately how canines think of, and act, I even have not had to "punish" a dogs the previous college way in some years. Am I previous giving them a rapid little whack on the nostril in the event that they do something incredibly incorrect? No, yet whilst your doing each and everything else suitable, the desire shouldn't upward push up the place you have too.

Answer 10

OF COURSE YOU ARE GOING TO HAVE ALOT OF PEOPLE TELL YOU YES AND SOME WILL SAY NO I SAY IT DEPENDS IF IT IS JUST A SMACK ON THE BUTT OR HAND THEN NO I TOTALLY BELIEVE THAT KIDS NEED PUNISHMENT IT WORKED FOR US AND OUR PARENTS AND ALOT OF US DID NOT TURN OUT MESSED UP I BELIEVE ALOT OF KIDS THESE DAYS ARE GOING WILD BECAUSE THE WORST PUNISHMENT THEY GET IS A TIME OUT AFTER A WHILE THAT DOES NOT BOTHER THEM AT ALL SO THEY END UP WALKING ALL OVER THEIR PARENTS SO I SAY IF THE CHILD NEEDS A SPANKING DO IT HE/SHE WILL BE BETTER FOR IT