Spanking Persuasive Essay

Jacob Busby-Smith

Hon English ll

Ms. Seidner

12-4-14

Physical Punishment Spanking/Beating is an often very popular way of teaching a child what is right and what is wrong but is it actually an effective way of disciplining a child? Studies have shown that adults that were physically punished as children showed higher rates of depression, anxiety, and substance abuse. There are many ways to discipline a child without beating them and potentially causing traumatic personality problems. Physical Punishment shouldn’t be tolerated, it’s cruel and does more harm than good to the children around the world. Physical punishment is what involves the deliberate infliction of pain as retribution for an offence. with a lot of families Physical force/punishment

Tom Corson of the Kern County Network for Children said, “There’s a fine line between spanking as a form of discipline and as a form of abuse and a lot of it just depends on intent and severity. A little swat on the butt is not gonna constitute as abuse, but if there is broken skin, those types of things are gonna constitute as abuse.” This statement shows that what Peterson was doing was not a spanking, it was a terrible beating of a 4-year-old with a tree branch.(www.breakersfeildnow.com) Peterson’s reasoning for his actions is that, that’s how he was disciplined as a child so he was going to raise his child the exact same way. He wasn’t beating his son to death or anything of that nature, but that is how he was taught to deal with situations. This is a perfect example of how parents beating/spanking their children excessively comes out later on in the child's life when they mature. They were never taught how to manage a situation in a more verbal and less aggressive way, they resorted to physical force to express their anger and in a lot of cases that can be seen as