Spanking Child Abuse Research Paper

The article from CNN Opinion, discuses whether spanking is child abuse parenting or not. There is misplaced outrage from people who are taking the recent stories about the misconduct of professional athletes. The misplaced outrage is that people are getting worked up over about Adrian Peterson, Minnesota Vikings running back, being indicted on a felony charge of child abuse. Before that incident, a video of Ray Rice, Baltimore Ravens running back, was released showing him hitting and knocking his fiancé, she is now his wife, in a hotel elevator. The NFL may be spilling out onto the personal lives of the players’. The issue is that people consider spanking as child abuse, not as parenting.

Every parent has a different idea or definition of what spanking is and what is acceptable. The problem is not that kids are getting spanked; it is the kids who are not getting spanked, or spanked enough. It is like the children are “little CEOs” of their home when the parents should be the “CEOs.” Parents should put their child in order and make sure that they are in a child’s place. It is happening everywhere, not only in one place. It may be a sensitive subject in some homes, but it is about disciplining a child. Others may call discipline as violence. There is a huge difference between discipline

and violence. Discipline is the teaching children to obey rules or a code of behavior using punishment to correct disobedience.
In my opinion, spanking a child is not child abuse.

There is a fine line between teaching a child the consequences of doing something wrong and actually beating a child. Children will not do what adults tell them to do until they learn the consequences that will come from doing something that they are not suppose to do. It is the parents’ job to teach and prepare their kids to enter a world where they will learn that bad behavior has its consequence. Children need discipline. They need boundaries and a consistent message. Children need to understand that “no” means “no.” Boundaries can be set without spanking, but the problem is that setting boundaries with spanking requires

patience.
Although, there are a lot of disagreements with spanking, every parent has their own way of disciplining their children. Children are people who do not have experience of rules and boundaries. It is up to the parents to teach their kids those rules and the consequences for disobeying those. Spanking is just one tool to guiding children. Kids will learn better is the punishment has a logical connection to the crime