do parents who use corporal punishment know its effects on children?

Question

do parents who use corporal punishment know its effects on children? Can you please give me sources to justify your answer. I also beleive they dont but I cant find any source that can justify my aswer

According to my research, corporal punishment can negatively affect a child in terms of his/her physical, psychological and behavioral development

I am in high school, this is part of my research paper, I dont have a kid. I just need help from people who are anti-corporal punishment.

When I was younger, I also experienced corporal punishment and you know what happened to me? I dont trust my parents because I know that they will spank me the moment I tell them anything wrong, I have low self esteem, I have low self confidence and these gives me low grades.

Spanking is a form of corporal punishment. Corporal from the word Corpus means body. When you smack, you are hitting his/her body and you physically punish the child through pain. Therefore it is corporal punishment

Answer 1

Being a child, I am sure you don't understand why your parents do what they do. I personally can't understand why a high schooler still needs to be spanked, however that's just me. As to you question, it's very politically incorrect to use spanking now days, therefor you won't find many books on the subject. However if your looking for some links,

Dr James Dobson is an expert on parenting and family issues
his site is at

http://www.family.org/

Also here is a list of some super successful people who have been spanked as children.

http://www.usatoday.com/money/companies/management/2006-10-08-spanking-ceos-usat_x.htm



I still am not keen on research, almost all research is bias to the thinking of the researchers theory. That's why they do the research to begin with. I say love your children, parent them as you see fit. If you love your children you can't go wrong.

Answer 2

Children Have no fear!! AS a child today you don't have to worry about a paddle in the principals office for misbehavior, You are not chastized for missbehavior in public and now they are taking punishment from the parent out of the picture all together. HOW do you intend to correct a child that has no fear of punishment. LOOK at the past IF you talked to all the elders of today you would see repect and moral apptitude. I am sure anyone over 50 today has had a spanking in the past as a child. I don't see any of these things in the children of today. TEACH YOUR KID don't count on anyone else to your work. If you feel a paddleing and I don't mean a beating a paddleing is needed then maybe trust your instincts after all it is your kid isn't it. If you LEARNED what was right and wrong then your child probably will too. Talk with your grandparents if you have them. They are pretty smart

Answer 3

corporal punishment is not spanking. I swat on the bottom is not going to harm a child. Why do parents have to give sources to where they got their information.

When I have to I do spank. I dont do it for petty reasons, or alot. I do not hurt my children, a swat on the tush is not going to ruin their life. Kids now have it so easy. When I was a kid Parents BEAT their kids for anything. Not doing as told, smarting off ect. I would never do that , but a swat with my hand i do do !

If you as a parents chose not to spank , dont......... that's your choice, dont interfere in a parent that chooses to spank. Now if the parent is HITTING a child that's a different story. You raise yours as you wish and I will mine.

My children are well behaved so I do not have to spank often. But my children always get asked back because they have good manors and behave So I'm doing something right.

I feel if you dont discipline your child your doing them a disservice.

EDIT: I spank my son, he is now 15 and I dont have to anymore. He has high honors, and he is very active at school, and has great self esteem. Being spanked is not what is causing your low self esteem. Now if your parents cuss at you and put you down maybe, I would never do that to my boy.

Answer 4

One cannot properly justify a pro-source for corporal punishment as there is no accurate research on this matter. The research conducted on the anti-corporal punishment sheds some light if you look in between the lines of the "will do harm". Personally speaking, I was given corporal punishment when young and the negative affect it caused me is negligible. I still recommend such punishment as a last resort, but because of the mental and emotional stability of the individuals nowadays, who have subscribed to the teachings of "hands off" punishment because of the influence of medical and government sources, I no longer recommend such actions. The generations since this "hands off" procedure are less obeisance to society and may/will inflict abuse more often to the young.

Answer 5

Hello there! This is a really great question. I think that a lot of the problems in the world today actually result from children not being diciplined by their parents. If there aren't any consequences for your actions, then how are children going to learn? When my brother and I did something wrong, we were always spanked. I dont' think that there is any "long term phsycological effect" on children who are spanked. We are in such a "me" generation right now and everyone thinks that they need someone to blame their problems on, so why not just blame it on a phsycological disorder that is a result of your parents spanking you for dicipline when you were a child? My parents spanked my brother and I when we needed to be disciplined (and only then I might add) and we both turned out to be just fine. We both have families and are loving parents. I dont' think that it has any real effects, just made up ones from people looking for a scapegoat to blame all of their problems on. :) Good luck on your paper.

Answer 6

In some cases it effects the child, but in most cases it doesnt if it is not too extreme. I mean until about 15 years ago, there was nothing wrong with hitting your child or anything like that. Corporal punishment was used on children ever since the beginning of time, and obviously not everybody was screwed up.

Answer 7

The argument about corporal punishment is very subjective. For one, you really need to define what is corporal punishment.
In the Torah, corporal punishment is used for certain sins and crimes.
Used intelligently, and in moderation, it can be a good teaching tool. Aside from the extreme cases of abuse, there is little or no substantiative evidence showing that corporal punishment is a bad thing. Quite the contrary is true.
If you look at today's schools, there is a definite correlation between the remove of corporal punishment and the level of violence within them.
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One thing you need to realize for your report. The anti-corporal punishment following is more opinion generated. There is no empirical evidence...that is, no physical reproducible findings that back up anti-corporal punishment. Proof simply does not exist. All of the arguments are based on opinion or bad science.
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I'm sorry for you. One thing you need to realize, what you describe isn't traditional corporal punishment. You are describing child abuse. That's why I said that you need to define what you consider the parameters of corporal punishment.

Answer 8

I'm sure you don't actually mean corporal.. because I'm pretty sure you're referring to spanking, etc.
I can just say from experience that I approve of my parents having spanked me. I learned a great many lessons from the discipline of their hand. I am hard headed and never used to listen with words or head games. All it took was a spanking. The relationship I have with my parents now is amazing. They're my best friends. I'd rather hang out and talk to them more than see most anyone else. We talk about everything... and they always have my back. They never once abused me, just corrected me. I'm going to do the same thing with my children.

Answer 9

I think anything that you read in a book would be pretty useless. Kids react to punishment in different ways.

As a child I had a few "tuneups" that were too agressive. So what? I hold no resentment. As far as my boys are concerned, one firm swat on the butt with an open hand does the trick. In fact one boy just needs the threat of one to modify his behavior. I'm lucky that I have good kids.

Answer 10

I have studied this in school also and have lots of info for you.
As a parent, you need to make an informed decision on how you discipline your child. Probably about 95% of people on this site will tell you all the great things about spanking. They say "I got spanked and I turned out fine, spare the rod etc." Most will justify it by saying "Spank out of love, not anger or there is a difference between spanking and abuse or only spank them if they are about to touch a hot stove or run into the street." These comments are the most popular ones of pro-spankers. These people seem to think that spanking has to be the only alternative to good behavior.

I am in favor of discipline and believe that you can raise a spoiled, unruly, aggressive, uncontrollable child if you are a permissive parent. These types of parents provide no discipline at all and let their children run the show, give in to them or just have no structure, rules, consequences or consistency. I believe that you can raise children with no spanking. I am against it and we use time-out, removing priviledges or redirection (distracting) for toddlers under 2 years old. It really works for us and we get alot of compliments on how well behaved our children are. They respect us and do not fear us. Spanking is one of the easiest ways for parents because it lets you rule your children through fear.
Pro-spankers raise their children relying on old habits and impulses because that is how they were raised. Their tendency is to have no motivation to learn and improve. They lack child development education, have had no parenting classes and most likely do not work with children professionally. They blame (not spanking) for the state of people today. You can raise a self confident, happy, well behaved child without spanking. Check out the supernanny website or the dr Sears website. They have such great, effective ways of discipline that really work. Hitting just teaches that it is okay to hit and you sure don't want your little child one day as an adult being so angry at you for spanking them. Good luck. The more educated you are on this topic, the best you will be at parenting. Parents who spank seem to lack a bit of intelligence. Good luck.
Early childcare professional 17 years and a mom of 3.
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