Corporal punishment is defined as the act of punishing a child by spanking them or hitting them with an object. The purpose of physically punishing children is to try to get a point across, and teach them that their actions are wrong. In the United States today, there are 19 different states that allow corporal punishment to be be given to a child by authority figures such as schools or daycares. All states in the United States allow corporal punishment to be used within the household. Parents all over the world use this approach on their children and rely on it through out their children’s lives. Mental outcomes of corporal punishment can be severe, for example, if a child gets spanked in class or in a public environment they could become …show more content…
Corporal punishment is often a way parents or guardians try to get their children to cooperate with what they want them to do or to let them know if something is not okay for them to do, hoping they will remember the pain to make it not happen again in the future, as stated by Mulvaney and Merbert in the article Stress Appraisal and Attitudes Toward Corporal Punishment as Intervening Processes Between Corporal Punishment and Subsequent Mental Health (34). Corporal punishment could also start leading to aggressive behavior because that is all they know, and it could cause them to become more aggressive toward their peers or partners later in life. Corporal punishment can cause long term effects as well as short term effects in a childs life. Corporal punishment as a child leads to aggressive behavior; therefore, it is very possible that it could cause aggressive relationships down the road having to do with your significant other. Corporal punishment could cause many different issues, whether it is at home or in school. The outcomes are unpredictable and could cause a lot of mental damage to the …show more content…
Corporal punishment causes Corporal punishment pushes toward negative mental health results. Mulvaney and Merbert found that self esteem and depression are the main two outcomes from a child being physically punished (403). The child is likely to believe everyone is out to get them and that would cause them to be more aggressive. Long term aggression and anti social behavior is also an outcome from corporal punishment. Gershoff found in one of his studies that one of the most typical outcomes of corporal punishment could be violence, such as hitting, pushing, or kicking other students in the class, or the anti social behavior that could be stealing stuff from other students or the class room, or lying to to authority figures (38). If a child is more violent then that could cause them to get into more legal trouble with the police. Corporal punishment could also cause hurt to children, such as leaving them with bruises they feel they need to hide in public, and it could cause them to be severely injured. Anxiety is another common side effect that comes with being physically punished. The stress is likely to cause temporary stress that while being repeated can make a long term permanent effect likely to occur (37). Corporal punishment doesn’t only hurt the child’s mental health, but it also has negative effects on the brain. Physically punishing a child hurts the child mentally, physically, and it also
Social effects of spanking, therefore, include; fear, spanking teaches a child to be fearful. Spanking is quite shameful and humiliating, when a child is made to undergo spanking from a very young age they grow to be scared and may never have the opportunity to express their opinions openly. They will relate the pain they suffered through physical punishment with older people and this would make them timid even around their teachers. It may also cause them to not listen to their parent and ultimately they grow up to be resentful. Secondly, it makes a child learn violence, this is cultivated when a child interprets that violence is an acceptable means of resolving the conflict. Surveys have over time proven that kids who are spanked will most likely fight and hit other children and will most likely become violent
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The term corporal punishment means the intentional infliction of pain on the body for purposes of punishment and includes slapping, hitting with objects, pinching, shaking and forcing to stand for long periods of time (Epoch 1). Family researchers define corporal punishment as " the use of physical force aimed at causing children to experience pain but not injury, for the purposes of correction and control of youthful behavior" (Day 83). Spanking is one form of physical or corporal punishment (Epoch 1).
Corporal punishment is a traditional practice of imposing pain, which is commonly used by parents towards children to remove an unpleasant behavior. It is also a physical force towards a child for the purpose of control, and as a disciplinary penalty inflicted on the body. The parents play a pivotal role in honing and disciplining their child with regards to his/her actions. Hitting them with physical objects and forcing them to do cleaning works are some of the ways of discipline, which were done at home. In the year 2000, research, the convention, and law reform – modified the punishment towards children. According to research, 20,000 people in the U.S – particularly those who are 20 years old and above, 1,258 experienced punishment by pushing, grabbing, slapping and hitting. 19,349 people had been reported that they didn’t experience such kind of punishment. Moreover, it is also executed on the children, in order for them to act independently and to visualize the negativities of being careless and dependent to others. Punishment is also
If your family is like 90% of the population, then you have been disciplined using corporal punishment or have discipled your children with it. The topic of whether parents should use corporal punishment has been debated for years, and it is illegal in the United States to use physical punishment; however, each state’s law on corporal punishment varies and all allow some form of physical punishment. New studies greatly question whether corporal punishment should be used when discipling children. Parents or guardians should not be allowed to use corporal punishment because it causes anti-social behavior, it increases aggression, and it causes cognitive problems.
Every parent has differing beliefs in how a child must be disciplined. A child’s undesirable behavior is a cause for a parent to spank them to correct them. Simple mistakes made by children, who have yet to develop cognitive reasoning, are not deserving to experience pain. By definition in the psychological world, corporal punishment is used in like terms with spanking. It is the “use of physical force with the intention of causing a child to experience pain, but not to injury, for the purpose of correction or control of the child’s behavior” (Straus 3). There are countless of studies that has been done by psychologists on the effects
Since the mid-1950s, parents and psychologists have been battling over the topic concerning corporal punishment. The parents were raised in homes where corporal punishment was used, and they feel that it was a successful technique that raised them well. Psychologists, on the other hand, conducted research; a lot of which was biased and false, telling parents that corporal punishment was bad for their children. After years of researching and studying the effects of corporal punishment, the most popular theories stating that it is a harmful technique, were proven wrong. Corporal punishment is found to be a good technique in the right situations, with the right motives, and using the correct tools.
According to the World Health Organization, “Around 60% of children aged 2-14 years regularly suffer physical punishment from their parents or other caregivers”. A percentage this high is a daunting problem as children should be raised in positive environments that help them blossom into caring and compassionate adults. Corporal punishment, defined as a physical correction of behaviors, has long been integrated into our society. While there is a difference between corporal punishment and abuse, the former can cause trauma and damage to children's psyche, as does abuse. Parents share a common goal: to provide some form of discipline in order to correct unwanted behaviors.
Annotated Bibliography duRivage, Natalie, et al. “Parental Use of Corporal Punishment in Europe: Intersection between Public Health and Policy.” PLOS ONE, 2015. In their article, the authors present possible linkages between mental health and corporal punishment.
On a student’s cell phone, a teacher is caught hitting students with a thick stick. He continually hits everywhere from the students’ hips to the head harshly without a hesitation. This video is opened to the public by a student in the class posting it on the Internet. According to the other students, they were punished because they skipped class when the school inspectors came. All the people who looked at it on the Internet were surprised to see this kind of behavior. Recently, we’ve heard a lot on the media about punishment by teachers in school. Some people agree with the teacher’s power to punish, claiming that it is a part of education. However, contrary to this opinion, I disagree with corporal punishment because physical punishment brings only temporary effects in correcting children’s behavior. Also, it can humiliate a child by insulting his or her personality and have a poor affect on their self esteem. Besides, physical punishment can be abused because there aren’t any concrete standards to regulate how much punishment is proper in disciplining.
With corporal punishment, the thought process behind this method is to ignite the fear with the use of physical harm from any action from a child that is deemed wrong. For anyone in general, the thought of getting hurt over something that can be prevented is a lesson within itself. However, children are not at the same thinking capacity as adults as it hinders them to actually process what is happening. “Physical punishment can work momentarily to stop problematic behavior because children are afraid of being hit, but it doesn’t work in the long term and can make children more aggressive” (Smith ). The purpose of disciplining is meant to be a teaching lesson that later on is not needed because the child has learn learned from the past.
“It hurts and it’s painful inside – it’s like breaking your bones; it’s loud and sore, and it stings; it feels like you’ve been adopted or something and you’re not part of their family; you feel like you don’t like your parents anymore; you feel upset because they are hurting you, and you love them so much, and then all of a sudden they hit you and you feel as though they don’t care about you” (Pritchard 9). These are the feelings of those juveniles who suffer from corporal punishment. Corporal punishment has been one of the main topics of research in Psychology in last few decades. Although people had believed, “Spare the rod and spoil the child” but in the present age of science, research has revealed that the corporal punishment causes more harm to the children instead of having a positive effect on them. According to UNICEF, “Corporal punishment is actually the use of physical measures that causes pain but no wounds, as a means of enforcing discipline” (1). It includes spanking, squeezing, slapping, pushing and hitting by hand or with some other instruments like belts etc. But it is different from physical abuse in which punishment result in wounds and the objective is different from teaching the discipline. Although Corporal punishment is considered to be a mode of teaching discipline and expeditious acquiescence, however, it leads to the disruption of parent-child relationship, poor mental health of juveniles, moral internalization along with their anti-social and aggressive behaviour and it is against the morality of humans.
Corporal punishment is the physical disciplinary method used by parents, teachers, and school administrators in an effort to correct a child’s undesirable behaviors. The use of physical force is one that is often times controversial and usually evokes very strong reactions. These feelings surface, and opposing views clash, when scandals surrounding corporal punishment hit the media and heated arguments in the comments section of articles emerge. While corporal punishment occasionally makes its way into the limelight, it is a decision all parents are faced with eventually and often times daily. For example, when a toddler is sprawled out on the grocery store floor kicking, hitting, and flinging
Corporal punishment is defined as “an infliction of punishment to the body.” My primary reason for not approving corporal punishment would be that corporal punishment creates a negative reaction from the student’s perspective plus additional problems in the end. To discipline students in a way that will harm them into non-misbehavior is not the way to go. I claim that corporal punishment in public schools should not be permitted because it is barbaric, harmful, and in no way a method to solve personal problems.
Physical punishment may cause a child psychological problems. First, if the physical punishment starts at an early age the child will be used to being physically punished, therefore, his or hers self-esteem may severely negative as he or she grows up. Second, it is a life-affecting act to physically punish a child because they will be traumatized. Eventually parents should think twice before they can physically punish their children. What they should think of is what problems they are causing the child in its life.