son pushing another one of his children. The boy suffered cuts and bruises to areas including his back‚ buttocks‚ ankles and legs. My Reaction The indictment of NFL star Adrian Peterson on child abuse charges has led to a robust debate about whether hitting‚ spanking or any other form of corporal punishment is justified and effective in dealing with children. It has also revealed sharp differences in cultural‚ regional and generational attitudes toward using any
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legal in 23 states‚ this law has many variations. As experts further gather and study information about children’s psychological and physical development‚ more controversy arises on whether parents have the right to beat their kids or not. I believe spanking is a tool used to discipline children that should be classified as corporal punishment; therefore parents should not be able to spank their children. Recent studies show that physical punishment has detrimental effects to the development of growing
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2012 “Corporal punishment remains a widely used discipline technique in most American families‚ but it has also been a subject of controversy within the child development and psychological communities.” (Gershoff) Corporal punishment is not only spanking your child but it is the effects that hitting your child can have. Studies have shown multiple outcomes of corporal punishment‚ some which have not resulted to be positive. There is so much behind disciplining a child stemming from emotions‚ force
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by spanking them? Parents use discipline to teach their children the difference between right and wrong. What is right and what is wrong? Ninety percent of parent thinks that the only way to deal with misbehaving children is to give them a smack. "The American Academy of Pediatricians say that spanking might actually do more harm than good"‚ meaning that the spanking will not correct the problems that the child has‚ but only make them worse. And I agree with that. Some believe spanking is a
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Positive Effects of Corporal Punishment Positive Effects of Corporal Punishment Corporal punishment in regards to spanking has been used for hundreds of years in educational systems and in house holds and is still legal in all fifty states for parents to use in there household because it is an effective way to punish a child for wrong behavior. Even though in the last couple of decades this topic has been very controversial‚ many countries and educational systems have decided to outlawed
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was about 20 years old‚ I met an old pastor’s wife who told me that when she was young and had her first child‚ she didn’t believe in striking children‚ although spanking kids with a switch pulled from a tree was standard punishment at the time. But one day when her son was four or five‚ he did something that she felt warranted a spanking – the first of his life. And she told him that he would have to go outside
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Watch‚15 Ap. 2010. Web11 Feb.2013. Gordon‚ Serena. “Spanking May Lower Kids IQS.” Coxhealth.com. Coxhealth‚26 Sept.2009.Web.11 Feb.2013. “Negative Effects of Corporal Punishment on Children.” Cyc-net.org. Lillian Hannah Banda‚ 1 Nov.2006.Web.11 Feb.2013. Power‚ Clark‚ Joan Durrant‚ Peter Newell. “Against Corporal Punishment-Moving Toward Constructive Child Discipline.” Nospank.net. N.P.‚ 2005.Web.11 Feb.2013. Smith L. Brendan. “The Case Against Spanking.” Apa.org. American Psychological Association‚ Ap
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affronted by my answering the phone instead of the party they wanted. Obviously the much-touted‚ constantly-applied "teaching of discipline" in homes and schools is not being learned. The admonitions‚ the sermons‚ the lessons‚ the threats‚ the shaming‚ spanking‚ and battering are not working. While the methods of teaching basic disciplines like telephone use and every-day manners are defective‚ there are yet shrill demands for an escalation of the very "remedies" that have consistently failed to produce
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Many issues are controversial because there are supporting facts to both opinions. One major issue in today’s society is whether to breast or bottle feed an infant. Another difficult issue is how to discipline a child. Some parents believe that spanking in certain situations is acceptable‚ and some view it as child abuse. Many parents believe religion is an essential part of growing into a moral person‚ and many do not. Family meals are important to some families‚ and unnecessary to others. Another
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Purpose: To persuade the audience to be for corporal punishment in Desoto county schools. Attention-Getter: Good morning. How is everyone doing today? If you were caught in a wildfire would you think to start a smaller more controlled fire in a line or circular pattern to deplete the fuel source of the oncoming blaze? In this case the term fighting fire with fire is being used literally but there are other cases where this phrase isn’t so literal. Some vaccinations use the same virus that caused
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