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 assist the courts in help make a ruling about child abuse. Spanking is a necessary evil that
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When Spanking Your Child Was Legal Kris Bisel Everest University Some feel that spanking goes back to biblical times and feel it is supported by the bible in certain verses. “Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod‚ he shall not die.”(KJV Proverbs 23:13 spanking a child is one of those controversial subjects to debate about. When spanking a child‚ is it child abuse or is it corrective action? Some parents find spanking their children
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Although most would condemn spanking publicly‚ the idea of corporal punishment has long been ingrained in the human mind. The earliest accounts of spanking are from the Hebrew Bible. Sailors were spanked as a punishment for not attending to their duties. Up until the twentieth century‚ spanking was a form of discipline that was accepted by society. Only recently has spanking been frowned upon. The earliest person widely known to question the practice was Benjamin Spock in the nineteen forties. Spock
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correct it? In the United States‚ many families seem to think that spanking a child is the way to correct the misdemeanor that the child has committed. If a child bites another child‚ should the child get spanked? I believe that if a child does something that is known to be wrong‚ than the child should have some sort of punishment. If a parent does the spanking out of anger‚ instead of for the purpose of correcting‚ than I feel as if spanking should be allowed. I personally was spanked as a child‚ and I
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countless hours of standing in the corner because I couldn’t resist fighting with my siblings. My parents were not huge fans of spanking‚ but if we got out of control‚ or if they were unable to reason with
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Last week‚ I went to a friend’s house while he was spanking his son. I felt so bad because he believes that spanking is an acceptable tool for disciplining a child. I saw it as an opportunity to master my critical thinking skills to reason with necessity. My belief is that spanking a child should not be the way to discipline a child. He does not need to spank or physically punish his child to get an understanding out. There are other ways to punish children than laying a hand or object on them.
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Cons to Spanking 11/8/12 Spanking is a form of punishment that is very controversial among today’s parents. It is described as hitting a child on the bottom with an open hand. There are other similar forms of punishment‚ one known as paddling‚ which is when a child is hit on the bottom with an object other than the hand. With different categories and different severities of this topic‚ there of course are many different opinions of the topic. There really are not any pros to spanking. It is
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While there are many parents who are against spanking‚ there are also a lot of parents who think that spanking is the most effective way to teach a child lesson. Every parent is a role model for their own child‚ thus spanking promotes aggression in younger
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the extent to which parents in the United States use corporal punishment (such as spanking and slapping) and its consequences on their children. The question of whether corporal punishment is an effective technique of discipline is fervently deliberated. In his article‚ Murray Stratus discussed ten myths that perpetuate corporal punishment‚ in this essay I will be discussing three of them‚ starting with: Myth 2: Spanking is needed as last resort. Straus stated that this myth consisting on physical and
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Parents should never spank their children Most adults spank their children because it make the child immediately stop what they are doing and it gets their attention. This is true‚ but spanking children is a bad idea because it gives children the wrong message which says that hitting is a way to solve problems. Spanking should be illegal because it hurts both the children and the parents and it does not help when it comes to trying to get the children to behave better. There are many reason to why parents
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