child. In truth‚ most people would be against spanking. After over looking the study done by Child Trends Databank‚ what is written in the textbook is not exactly what the article is trying to convey. First off‚ the article is not even for corporal punishment. It is in fact in favor of Skinners point of view. The textbook states that‚ according to the article “in a 2004 national survey‚ 77% of men and 69% of women that sometimes a child needs ‘a good hard spanking’” (Sigelman and Rider 44)
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English 1101-80569 2 October 2014 Essay 2 Fine Lines One of the main points in the article “Why America Should Outlaw Spanking” by Emily Bazelon is about how many rights parents have in America. The main example talked about in this article is about corporal punishment and whether or not parents have the right to spank their child or not. Reasons being that some extreme parents take it too far sometimes‚ leaving bruises and possibly even fracturing bones. Politian’s believe that outlawing spanking would
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use corporal or capital punishment to deal with criminals. I associated corporal or capital punishment torture‚ serious bodily harm or death. Explaining the history of corporal and capital punishments well help a reader get a better understanding of the issues surrounding those types of punishment. Instead of killing a person or torturing them I believe banishment to be a more humane way to punish someone. Ancient Greeks and Ancient Romans to various civilizations in the world use corporal punishment
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Ndeye Diack Diack1 English 101 Instructor: Summer Doucet 03 March 2012 Should parent spank their children? If parents are not going to spank their children when their children are big and strong enough to physically overpower their parents‚ it seems to me that choosing to spank them when they are small is somewhat thoughtless‚ and perhaps even cowardly. I believe
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Visualize getting off a school bus everyday having to worry about what parents will happen. Sixty four percent of children have been involved in abusive situations. There are different ways children can be physically abused. Physical abuse is not just temporary‚ it can be a life changing experience. Punishing kids by physically abusing them is a horrible form of discipline that causes the children to become violent‚ antisocial ‚ and mentally unstable. Physical violence should never be used on anyone
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Ednalyn A. Macas English 101-Essay #4 Research Paper-Final Draft May 3‚ 2012 Child Discipline Strategy: To Spank or Not to Spank? Should child discipline involved punishment that include spanking or hitting? Is it necessary to spank or not to spank a child as a form of discipline? Some parents have no trouble of agreeing with using a few disciplinary measurements to discipline a child. But‚ most parents argue that child spanking will have a negative effect on the child’s overall
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A person is walking through a mall. All of a sudden they see an object woosh by. But it is not an object‚ it is a child. As he tears through the building and across the big room‚ the mother hurries behind yelling and snatching at him trying to get him to stop. All the child does is screech‚ “NO!” The mother’s face turns red and she looks like she might blow a fuse. She grabs the child and wallops him on the behind. What did the spectator think when he saw this? When some people see a child being
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The Ugly Side of Corporal Punishment Willie L. Anderson ITT Technical Institute The Ugly Side of Corporal Punishment The words corporal punishment to any parent may raise an immediate red flag and has the potential to pose both a very volatile and emotional debate between two or more parties. There are some compelling reasons behind why corporal punishment should be legalized and enacted in all schools and states around the country‚ but with anything deemed good and necessary there are
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probably get a spanking hard enough to make him cry of pain. The child awaits in fear as he counts down the minutes till his father arrives‚ knowing that the worst is yet to come. Spanking may be best described as corporal punishment. So what exactly is corporal punishment? Corporal punishment includes a number of physical actions to‚ "Inflict pain and discomfort‚ including pinching‚ pulling ears and hair‚ shaking‚ slapping smacking‚ spanking‚ swatting‚ hitting‚ kicking‚ punching‚ paddling‚ using
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Lyon’s article “The Psychological Affects of Spanking Children” presents the idea that when you spank your kid you begin to devalue the parent-child communication‚ meaning that the child will become less social with their parents. She explains that corporal punishment puts a certain distance between the spanker and the spanked because the child may start to feel afraid of the parent(Lyon). This could be detrimental in home situations where the parent-child relationship may already be strained‚ such
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