The Pros And Cons Of Spanking
Spanking Is Never An Effective Form Of Discipline
Olivia Romeo November 13, 2014
Prepared as a course assignment for HDF 200, University of Rhode Island
Corporal punishment is known as a physical punishment, such as hitting or abusing. Spanking a child is a form of corporal punishment which means to slap a child on the buttock. In the United States, spanking is a form of correcting a child’s behavior or a way of disciplining. The Harris survey of 1,250 adults, conducted many statistics. One statistic showed that eighty percent of American parents spank their children and believe that spanking is sometimes appropriate (National Minority Politics). Some parents think spanking should never be done, …show more content…
There are many people in the United States that think spanking is appropriate if it is done properly. Parents who spank think that it is to show that their child is doing something wrong or dangerous. They feel as though the more they spank, the more they will behave. “In 2012, according to a nationally representative survey, 77 percent of men, and 65 percent of women 18 to 65 years old agreed that a child sometimes needs a ‘good hard spanking” (Blow, New York Times). On the other hand, other parents feel that spanking does not help in any way. Some believe it makes children more violent. Parents who do not spank believe that there are more effective ways to get their point across than to hit their own …show more content…
Some negative outcomes could be delinquency, antisocial behavior, physiological problems, and alcohol and drug abuse (New York Times). A research study from the New York Times shows how spanking at a young age was associated with greater aggression, rule-breaking and lower scores on vocabulary. Researches interviewed 1,933 parents when their children were 3 years old and again at age 5 asking whether and how often they were spanked. More than half of the mothers and a third of the fathers had spanked their children, with the frequency declining slightly at age 5 (Bakalar, New York Times). When the researches put together all variables such as a “child’s age and birth weight, aggression and vocabulary skills at younger ages, family income and race and many others, researches found that maternal spanking at age 5 was significant associated with greater aggression and rule-breaking and lower scores on the vocabulary test at age 9” (Bakalar, New York
Olivia Romeo November 13, 2014
Prepared as a course assignment for HDF 200, University of Rhode Island
Corporal punishment is known as a physical punishment, such as hitting or abusing. Spanking a child is a form of corporal punishment which means to slap a child on the buttock. In the United States, spanking is a form of correcting a child’s behavior or a way of disciplining. The Harris survey of 1,250 adults, conducted many statistics. One statistic showed that eighty percent of American parents spank their children and believe that spanking is sometimes appropriate (National Minority Politics). Some parents think spanking should never be done, …show more content…
There are many people in the United States that think spanking is appropriate if it is done properly. Parents who spank think that it is to show that their child is doing something wrong or dangerous. They feel as though the more they spank, the more they will behave. “In 2012, according to a nationally representative survey, 77 percent of men, and 65 percent of women 18 to 65 years old agreed that a child sometimes needs a ‘good hard spanking” (Blow, New York Times). On the other hand, other parents feel that spanking does not help in any way. Some believe it makes children more violent. Parents who do not spank believe that there are more effective ways to get their point across than to hit their own …show more content…
Some negative outcomes could be delinquency, antisocial behavior, physiological problems, and alcohol and drug abuse (New York Times). A research study from the New York Times shows how spanking at a young age was associated with greater aggression, rule-breaking and lower scores on vocabulary. Researches interviewed 1,933 parents when their children were 3 years old and again at age 5 asking whether and how often they were spanked. More than half of the mothers and a third of the fathers had spanked their children, with the frequency declining slightly at age 5 (Bakalar, New York Times). When the researches put together all variables such as a “child’s age and birth weight, aggression and vocabulary skills at younger ages, family income and race and many others, researches found that maternal spanking at age 5 was significant associated with greater aggression and rule-breaking and lower scores on the vocabulary test at age 9” (Bakalar, New York