What is corporal punishment? We have all experienced incidences of corporal punishment: when a mother smacks her son‚ trying to stop his tantrum because she doesn ’t want to buy him something; when a father shakes his daughter because she has hit another child; when an adolescent is hit for answering back. It ’s not unusual to see smacking or blows to the neck. Most people living in Spain don ’t see corporal punishment as something strange‚ something to be questioned‚ and yet it does make
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Title: Is Corporal Punishment Need to Discipline Children Debra D. Hill Psy 101 Instructor: John Long March 17‚ 2014 Is corporal punishment need to discipline children Introduction In this research‚ I will provide an overview statistics and past perspectives. There are many ways to punish your children and corporal punishment‚ just happens to be one of them. In today’s society‚ people are starting to realize the side effects of physical abuse. Supporting evidence corporal punishment
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Effects and Effectiveness of Corporal Punishment in U.S. Schools The Effects and Effectiveness of Corporal Punishment in U.S. Schools Merriam Webster defines corporal punishment as 1: punishment applied to the body of an offender including the death penalty‚ whipping‚ and imprisonment. 2: punishment administered by an adult (as a parent or a teacher) to the body of a child ranging in severity from a slap to a spanking ("Merriam-Webster‚" 2011). Currently corporal punishment is legal in nineteen U
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Corporal Punishment: Helping or Hurting Your Child? Child abuse! Spankings! Discipline! Beating! People have different thoughts when they hear the words corporal punishment. There is a fine line between corporal punishment‚ disciplining your child out of love‚ and child abuse‚ beating your child out of anger. I believe that physical discipline is needed when children continuously misbehave‚ as long as parents and authorities don’t cross the line. Three reasons I believe corporal punishment is an
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Unit 9 “Ten Myths that Perpetuate Corporal Punishment” According to his article Stratus discusses 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
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school for two weeks (Sterett). Even though this incident happened forty years back‚ the practice of corporal punishment is still taking place in some parts of the world‚ and the debate of whether corporal punishment should be legal or not is still a very heated topic. However‚ corporal punishment should be stopped completely and made illegal for the betterment of the students. Corporal punishment is the main cause of students facing physical and psychological disabilities. Murray A. Strauss. Professor
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The Spanking Issue: The Ethical Dilemma of Corporal Punishment This issue of corporal punishment is a current issue that many people have on their minds. The issue strikes an emotional chord for many whom were or were not punished by spanking during their own childhoods. The issue generally focuses on the effect that spanking or other discipline methods will have on children. I will specifically be exploring the question: is it ever appropriate to spank a child? The cases for and against the spanking
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Effect of Corporal and Non-Corporal Punishment on Academic Achievement of Elementary School Children with Reference to Gender and Board of Education S.V.Sindhu and Mahjabeen The present investigation attempts to study the effect of corporal and non-corporal punishment on academic achievement of elementary school children with reference to gender and Board of education. A random sample of 180 elementary school children belonging to the age group of 10 years‚ both boys and girls hailing from CBSE
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CORPORAL PUNISHMENT Should a teacher be allowed to inflict corporal punishment to instill discipline among delinquent students? Corporal punishment is defined as the use of physical force with the intention of causing a child to experience pain “but not injury” for the purpose of correction or control of the child’s behavior‚ the phrase “but not injury” was included in order to distinguish it from physical abuse. In my point of view the teachers should be allowed to inflict appropriate (with
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TO PUNISH OR DISCIPLINE? TEACHERS’ ATTITUDES TOWARDS THE ABOLITION OF CORPORAL PUNISHMENT Loretta Cicognani A research report submitted to the School of Human and Community Development‚ University of the Witwatersrand‚ Johannesburg‚ in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Education (Educational Psychology). Johannesburg 2004 I ABSTRACT In the last decade‚ corporal punishment in South African schools was banned. This is in keeping with international
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